Virtues and their vices
Virtues and their vices
Virtues and Their Vices is the only extant contemporary, comprehensive treatment of specific virtues and, where applicable, their competing vices. Each of the essays ... not only locates discussion of that virtue in its historical context, but also advances the discussion and de…
"Socrates' moral psychology is widely thought to be 'intellectualist' in the sense that, for Socrates, every ethical failure to do what is best is exclusively the result of some cognitive failure to apprehend what is best. Until fairly recently, the view that, for Socrates, emot…
""This is a path-breaking work, of the first importance for moral philosophy as well as for the comparative study of religion and morality. Detailed studies of particular conceptions of particular virtues are rare enough; but no one has hitherto contributed a comparative study o…
"Thirteen original essays by leading scholars explore aspects of Spinoza's ethical theory and, in doing so, deepen our understanding of the richly rewarding core of his system. Given its importance to his philosophical ambitions, it is surprising that his ethics has, until recen…
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Warren Smith examines the neglected biblical, liturgical and theological foundations of Ambrose's thought on ethics. Earlier studies have found little that was distinctively Christian in Ambrose's image of the virtuous person.
Warren Smith examines the neglected biblical, liturgical and theological foundations of Ambrose's thought on ethics. Earlier studies have found little that was distinctively Christian in Ambrose's image of the virtuous person.
Ambrose of Milan (340-397) was the first Christian bishop to write a systematic account of Christian ethics, in the treatise De Officiis, variously translated as "on duties" or "on responsibilities." But Ambrose also dealt with the moral life in other works, notably his sermons …
Economics and the virtues: building a new moral foundation
by Brennan, Jason, Rose, David C., (David Charles), Storr, Virgil Henry, Swanton, Christine, Otteson, James R., O'Keefe, Tim, Brennan, Geoffrey, Schliesser, Eric, Becker, Christian U., Baurmann, Michael, (Michael C.), Yuengert, Andrew M.,, Blanche E. Seaver Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Seaver College, Pepperdine University, Choi, Seung 'Ginny',, Ph.D. Candidate at Department of Economics and a Dissertation Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University
While ethics has been an integral part of economics since the days of Adam Smith (if not Aristotle), many modern economists dismiss ethical concerns in favor of increasing formal mathematical and computational methods. But recent financial crises in the real world have reignited…
