BOOKS BY CATEGORY
Your Account
Working Virtue
Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems
Price
Quantity
€63.44
(To see other currencies, click on price)
Hardback
Add to basket  

€48.18
(To see other currencies, click on price)
Add to basket  

MORE ABOUT THIS BOOK

Main description:

Working Virtue is the first substantial collective study of virtue theory and contemporary moral problems. Leading figures in ethical theory and applied ethics discuss topics in bioethics, professional ethics, ethics of the family, law, interpersonal ethics, and the emotions.

Virtue ethics is centrally concerned with character traits or virtues and vices such as courage (cowardice), kindness (heartlessness), and generosity (stinginess). These character traits must be looked to in any attempt to understand which particular actions are right or wrong and how we ought to live our lives. As a theoretical approach, virtue ethics has made an impressive comeback in relatively recent history, both posing an alternative to, and, in some ways, complementing well-known
theoretical stances such as utilitarianism and deontology. Yet there is still very little material available that presents virtue-ethical approaches to practical contemporary moral problems, such as what we owe distant strangers, our parents, or even non-human animals. This book fills the gap by dealing
with these and other pressing moral problems in a clear and theoretically nuanced manner.

The contributors offer a variety of perspectives, including pluralistic, eudaimonistic, care-theoretical, Chinese, comparative, and stoic. This variety allows the reader to appreciate not only the wide range of topics for which a virtue-ethical approach may be fitting, but also the distinctive ways in which such an approach may be manifested.


Contents:

1. Introduction ; 2. Caring as Relation and Virtue in Teaching ; 3. Professing Medicine, Virtue Based Ethics and the Retrieval of Professionalism ; 4. Doctoring and Self-Forgiveness ; 5. Virtue Ethics as Professional Ethics: The Case of Psychiatry ; 6. Trust, Suffering, and the Aesculapian Virtues ; 7. Environmental Virtue Ethics ; 8. The Good Life for Nonhuman Animals: What Virtue Requires of Humans ; 9. Law, Morality, and Virtue ; 10. Virtue Ethics, Role Ethics, and Business Ethics ; 11. Racial Virtues ; 12. Virtue and a Warrior's Anger ; 13. Famine, Affluence and Virtue ; 14. Filial Piety as a Virtue


PRODUCT DETAILS

ISBN-13: 9780199271658
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press)
Publication date: January, 2007
Pages: 330
Dimensions: 160.00 x 250.00 x 20.00
Weight: 645g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Ethics
Related books
Publisher recommends

CUSTOMER REVIEWS

Average Rating