Virtues of Limits

This book explores the place of limits within a well-lived human life and develops and defends an original account of limiting virtues, which are concerned with recognizing proper limits in human life.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Existential Limits


• 2: Moral Limits


• 3: Political Limits


• 4: Economic Limits

About the author

David McPherson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Creighton University. He works in the areas of ethics (especially virtue ethics), political philosophy, meaning in life, and philosophy of religion. He is the author of Virtue and Meaning: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and editor of Spirituality and the Good Life: Philosophical Approaches (Cambridge University Press, 2017). He is President of Philosophers in Jesuit Education, and he is also a co-founder of The Heartland Virtue Ethics Network.

Summary

This book explores the place of limits within a well-lived human life and develops and defends an original account of limiting virtues, which are concerned with recognizing proper limits in human life.

Additional text

In The Virtues of Limits, David McPherson offers us an historically rich and philosophically robust defence of the idea that humans flourish only when and insofar as they recognize and abide by certain well-founded constraints. What is particularly valuable about his treatment is that it demonstrates how the importance of such constraints is evidenced across different domains: existential, moral, political, and economic. The cogency of this demonstration is matched only by its timeliness, given that our time is one that finds constraints as such increasingly hard to rationalize.

Product details

• Authors: David Mcpherson, David (Associate Professor of Philosoph Mcpherson, McPherson David
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780192848536
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284853-6
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Bioethics, Ethics and moral philosophy, Bio-ethics