Virtue and the Moral Life - Theological and Philosophical Perspectives (Hardcover)

The scope of interest and reflection on virtue and the virtues is as wide and deep as the questions we can ask about what makes a moral agent's life decent, or noble, or holy rather than cruel, or base, or sinful; or about the conditions of human character and circumstance that make for good relations between family members, friends, workers, fellow citizens, and strangers, and the sorts of conditions that do not. Clearly these questions will inevitably be directed to more finely grained features of everyday life in particular contexts. Virtue and the Moral Life: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives takes up these questions. In its ten timely and original chapters, it considers the specific importance of virtue ethics, its public significance for shaping a society's common good, the value of civic integrity, warfare and returning soldiers' sense of enlarged moral responsibility, the care for and agency of children in contemporary secular consumer society, and other questions involving moral failure, humility, and forgiveness.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2014
First published:	August 2014
Editors:	William Werpehowski • Kathryn Getek Soltis
Contributors:	Mark A Wilson • Julie Hanlon Rubio • Lisa Tessman • Mary M Doyle Roche • James F Keenan Sj • Margaret Urban Walker • Jamie Schillinger • Jean Porter
Dimensions:	236 x 161 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	220
ISBN-13:	978-0-7391-8231-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > Practical & applied ethics Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > Philosophy of religion > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian theology > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > Practical & applied ethics Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian theology > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > Philosophy of religion > General Books > Christianity > Christian theology
LSN:	0-7391-8231-5
Barcode:	9780739182314

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