Debate about the concept of virtue is a persistent theme in
academic discourse. One strand of thinking attempts to examine and
reconstruct ethical theories with the aim of formulating a new
morality or ethics. A second strand of thought, more strongly
represented in this work, attempts to explore the social and
political world deploying the concept of virtue. Thus, this volume
crosses the established borders of academic disciplines in order to
provide a richer and more comprehensive understanding of the place
of virtues in contemporary western societies.
The editors hold that the dominating virtue of our culture and
society is the virtue of independence. Yet independence, or
individual autonomy, is contingent upon a diverse, and so far
ill-understood, set of cultural, biological, economic, ethical, and
political practices. The idea of individuality is in other words
supervening on a web of formal and informal relations. This volume
therefore attempts to improve our understanding of the prevailing
ethos of independence as well as of the mechanisms and practices
sustaining it.
Virtues are examined in specific contexts. Authors explore what
we can learn about our dependence on virtues from the archaic Greek
culture. They examine the relevance of virtue-ethics to the
understanding of day-to-day practices. And they look at the place
of virtues in understanding the norms of independence and liberty.
Other contributions attend to the virtues of independence and its
challenges, examining possible philosophical challenges,
questioning whether independence is always a virtue, and how the
virtues of justice fare given a commitment to the virtues of
independence.
The final portion of the bookexplore the empirical consequences
of the virtues of independence. Among the questions addressed are
how personal independence affects political and economic
institutions, and the connections between norms of independence and
the growth of modernity. This volume is an important contribution
to contemporary understanding of what constitutes virtuous and
ethical behavior.
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