Virtue and the Moral Life (eBook, ePUB)

Theological and Philosophical Perspectives
Redaktion: Werpehowski, William; Soltis, Kathryn Getek

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The scope of interest and reflection on virtue and the virtues is as wide and deep as the questions we can ask about what makes a moral agent's life decent, or noble, or holy rather than cruel, or base, or sinful; or about the conditions of human character and circumstance that make for good relations between family members, friends, workers, fellow citizens, and strangers, and the sorts of conditions that do not. Clearly these questions will inevitably be directed to more finely grained features of everyday life in particular contexts. Virtue and the Moral Life: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives takes up these questions. In its ten timely and original chapters, it considers the specific importance of virtue ethics, its public significance for shaping a society's common good, the value of civic integrity, warfare and returning soldiers' sense of enlarged moral responsibility, the care for and agency of children in contemporary secular consumer society, and other questions involving moral failure, humility, and forgiveness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739182321
• Artikelnr.: 41254671

Autorenporträt

Edited by William Werpehowski and Kathryn Getek Soltis - Contributions by Mark A. Wilson; Julie Hanlon Rubio; Lisa Tessman; Mary M. Doyle Roche; James F. Keenan, SJ; Margaret Urban Walker; Jamie Schillinger; Jean Porter; Jennifer A. Herdt and Edmund N. Sa

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Part I: Why Virtue? Chapter One: Seven Reasons for Doing Virtue
Ethics Today James F. Keenan, S.J. Chapter Two: Augustine and the
Liturgical Pedagogy of Virtue Jennifer A. Herdt Part II: Virtue,
Conscience, and Public Life Chapter Three: Historical Accountability and
the Virtue of Civic Integrity Margaret Urban Walker Chapter Four: Moral
Grief and Reflective Virtue Mark A. Wilson Part III: Virtue, Children, and
the Family Chapter Five: Children, Virtue Ethics, and Consumer Culture Mary
M. Doyle Roche Chapter Six: Passing on the Faith in an Era of Rising
'Nones': Practicing Courage and Humility Julie Hanlon Rubio Part IV: Virtue
and Moral Failure Chapter Seven: Sin, Sickness, and Transgression: Medieval
Perspectives on Sin and Their Significance Today Jean Porter Chapter Eight:
Making More Space for Moral Failure Lisa Tessman Part V: Virtue and the
Challenge of Otherness Chapter Nine: Distinguishing Humility and Justice in
Christian and Islamic Virtue Jamie Schillinger Chapter Ten: Human
Corruption and the Possibility of Love: Dostoevskian Ruminations on
Forgiveness Edmund N. Santurri