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245 00 Working virtue :|bvirtue ethics and contemporary moral
problems /|cedited by Rebecca L. Walker, Philip J.
Ivanhoe.
260 Oxford :|bOxford University Press,|c2009.
300 ix, 319 p.
500 Originally published: 2007.
505 0 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
506 1 200 annual accesses.|5UkHlHU
520 8 '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.
|bWorking 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.
650 0 Virtue.
700 1 Walker, Rebecca L.
700 1 Ivanhoe, P. J.
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