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Title:

Virtues in action : new essays in applied virtue ethics / edited by Michael W. Austin, Eastern Kentucky University, USA.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xi, 222 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Ethics.
Virtue.
Virtues.

Other Authors:

Austin, Michael W., editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-219) and index.

Contents:

Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: professional virtue -- 1. Virtue-centered approaches to education: prospects and pitfalls / Gregory Bassham -- 2. The virtues of honorable business executives / Dan Demetriou -- 3. Sport as a moral practice: an Aristotelian approach / Michael W. Austin -- Part II: Social virtue -- 4. Sex, temperance, and virtue / Stan van Hooft -- 5. Extend your benevolence: kindness and generosity in the family and beyond / Heidi Giebel -- 6. A virtue ethical case for pacifism / Franco V. Trivigno -- 7. Some critical reflections on abortion and virtue theory / Matthew Flannagan -- Part III: Environmental virtue -- 8. Environmental degradation, environmental justice, and the compassionate agent / Chris Frakes -- 9. Humility and environmental virtue ethics / Matthew Pianalto -- Part IV: intellectual virtue -- 10. Hope as an intellectual virtue / Nancy E. Snow -- 11. Virtue ethics and moral failure : lessons from neuroscientific moral psychology / Lisa Tessman -- 12. Getting our minds out of the gutter: fallacies that foul our discourse (and virtues that clean it up) / Robert K. Garcia and Nathan L. King -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN:

113728028X
9781137280282

OCLC:

(OCoLC)859253186

LCCN:

2013038633

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)