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A collection of essays from experts in ethics and philosophy of love offers varying perspectives on the value of a contemporary secular virtue of chastity. For the past half century chastity has been portrayed as an unnecessary ideal with few secular benefits. The essays in this…
Daniel Star presents a novel solution to the problem of reconciling normative ethics with ordinary virtue - for while ethical principles seem worth defending, it is not plausible to suggest that virtuous people in general follow them. He presents a new account of virtue, and ret…
The correlation between person and environment has long been a central focus of phenomenological analysis. While phenomenology is usually understood as a descriptive discipline showing how essential features of the human encounter with things and people in the world are articula…
This volume focuses on one trend in ethics--virtue ethics--and its connection to phenomenology. The essays explore how phenomenology contributes to this field of ethics and clarifies some of its central issues, such as flourishing and good character traits . The volume initiates…
"Putting On Virtue reveals how a distrust of learned and habituated virtue shaped both early modern Christian moral reflection and secular forms of ethical thought." "Jennifer Herdt develops her claims through an argument of broad historical sweep, which brings together the Aris…
"The Supremacy of Love advocates an agape-centered vision of virtue ethics, combining traditional Aristotelian ethics with insights from Thomas Aquinas. It shows why virtue is good for the virtuous individual, reimagines impartiality so that it is good for the virtuous individua…
Das Hauptthema der Arbeit ist die Person als das freie Subjekt der phänomenologischen Reduktion. Anhand der Husserlschen Bestimmung der Person als der induktiv-empirischen Einheit mit ihrem Habitus einerseits und als der Freiheit andererseits verfolgt die Arbeit den Denkprozeß H…
Moral formation and the virtuous life
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In Moral Formation and the Virtuous Life, volume editor Paul M. Blowers has translated and gathered several key texts from early Christian sources to explore the broad themes of moral conscience and ethics. Readers will gain a sense of how moral formation was part of a process s…