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Virtue and the moral life : theological and philosophical perspectives

Keenan, SJ, James F., Boston College(Contributions by)Porter, Jean(Contributions by)Roche, Mary M. Doyle(Contributions by)Rubio, Julie Hanlon(Contributions by)Schillinger, Jamie(Contributions by)Tessman, Lisa(Contributions by)Walker, Margaret Urban(Contributions by)Wilson, Mark A.(Contributions by)Soltis, Kathryn Getek(Edited by)Werpehowski, William(Edited by)
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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.

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Lexington Books
0739182315 / 9780739182314
Hardback
179.9
22/07/2014
United States
English
220 pages
25 cm