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Virtues and Their Vices is the only extant contemporary, comprehensive treatment of specific virtues and, where applicable, their competing vices. Each of the essays, written exclusively for this volume, not only locates discussion of that virtue in its historical context, but also advances the discussion and debate concerning the understanding and role of the virtues. Each of the first four sections focuses on a particular, historically important class of virtues: the cardinal virtues, the capital vices (or 'seven deadly sins') and the corrective virtues, intellectual virtues, and the theological virtues. The final section discusses the role virtue theory and the virtues themselves play in a number of disciplines, ranging from theology and political theory to neurobiology and feminism. The treatment of the virtues in this present volume is sensitive to the historical heritage of the virtues, including their theological heritage, without paying undue attention to the historical and theological issues. Virtues and Their Vices engages contemporary philosophical scholarship as well as relevant scholarship from related disciplines throughout. It is a unique and compelling addition to the philosophical treatment of the virtues as well as their import in a wide spectrum of disciplines.

Table of Contents:
Kevin Timpe and Craig A. Boyd: Introduction I: The Cardinal Virtues 1: Jay Wood: Prudence 2: David Schmidtz and John Thrasher: The Virtues of Justice 3: Daniel McInerny: Fortitude and the Conflict of Frameworks 4: Robert C. Roberts: Temperance II: The Capital Virtues and Corrective Virtues 5: Colleen McCluskey: Lust and Chastity 6: Robert B. Kruschwitz: Gluttony and Abstinence 7: Andrew Pinsent: Avarice and Liberality 8: Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung: Sloth: Some Historical Reflections on Laziness, Effort, and Resistance to the Demands of Love 9: Zac Cogley: A Study in Virtuous and Vicious Anger 10: Timothy Perrine and Kevin Timpe: Envy and Its Discontents 11: Craig A. Boyd: Pride and Humility: Tempering the Desire for Excellence III: Intellectual Virtues 12: Linda Zagzebski: Trust 13: John Greco: Episteme: Knowledge and Understanding 14: Jason Baehr: Sophia: Theoretical Wisdom and Contemporary Epistemology, IV: The Theological Virtues 15: Robert Audi: Faith as Attitude, Trait, and Virtue 16: Charles Pinches: On Hope 17: Paul J. Wadell: Charity: How Friendship with God Unfolds in Love for Others V: Virtue Across the Disciplines 18: Stephen Pope: Virtue in Theology 19: Christie Hartley and Lori Watson: Virtue in Political Thought: On Civic Virtue and Political Liberalism 20: Everett L. Worthington, Jr., Caroline Lavelock, Daryl R. Van Tongeren, David J. Jennings, II, Aubrey L. Gartner, Don E. Davis, and Joshua N. Hook: Virtue in Positive Psychology 21: James A. Van Slyke: Moral Psychology, Neuroscience, and Virtue: From Moral Judgment to Moral Character 22: Ruth Groenhout: Virtue and A Feminist Ethics of Care

About the Author :
Dr. Kevin Timpe is professor of philosophy at Northwest Nazarene University, having previously been a research fellow at St. Peter's College, Oxford University. His research focuses primarily on the metaphysics of free will and moral responsibility, and issues in the philosophy of religion. He is the author of Free Will: Sourcehood and its Alternatives, 2e and the editor of Arguing about Religion and Metaphysics and God. Dr. Craig A. Boyd is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy and Liaison for Philosophy and Theological Studies at St. Louis University. He has published two books: A Shared Morality: A Narrative Defense of Natural Law Ethics and Visions of Agapé: Problems and Possibilities in Divine and Human Love.

Review :
This is a very good book. As with any collected volume, some of the essays are stronger than others. But nearly every essay is wide-ranging, historically informed, well argued, lively, interesting, and potentially edifying. I highly recommend it, and hope to see more volumes like it. The essays, by and large, do a fine job of historical discussion balanced with contemporary issues/retrieval, that is interwoven into the author's own constructive agenda. In this sense, this volume would be a perfect way to start ones research on the virtues and vices, but it would also serve as a helpful outline of contemporary thought on the topic. I think that this volume is among the most important anthologies of the last years in the ever-growing field of virtue ethics Probably the most striking as well as intriguing feature of the anthology is its structure I think that the editors have done tremendous job in selecting the contributors to this volume. The volume is comprised of many excellent contributions from major figures in their respective fields and it seems that Timpe and Boyd have chosen the contributors with much care. At the end of the day, I would like to wholeheartedly recommend this anthology to anyone working in the field of virtue ethics and in broader sense in the field of virtue theory. But also philosophers of religion as well as theologian, and interested students will profit from reading this admittedly rather bulky book. Because of its rather unique focus on the systematics of virtues and their vices, I consider the volume to vital contribution to the debate. Overall, volume I of Virtues and Their Vices provides a nice introduction to Catholic virtue ethics for those already familiar with the basics of virtue ethics. Successful as a whole and the individual essays should prove useful for both scholars and teachers As a single-stop, comprehensive resource on the virtues and vices, this volume is probably the best we now have.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199645541
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 938 gr
  • ISBN-10: 019964554X
  • Publisher Date: 06 Feb 2014
  • Height: 240 mm
  • No of Pages: 522
  • Spine Width: 35 mm
  • Width: 163 mm


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