Virtue and the Moral Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Virtue and the Moral Life write by William Werpehowski. This book was released on 2014-07-22. Virtue and the Moral Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Skillfulness of Virtue
The Skillfulness of Virtue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Skillfulness of Virtue write by Matt Stichter. This book was released on 2018-10-04. The Skillfulness of Virtue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Proposes that virtues are skills that we can work on improving, using psychological research on self-regulation and expertise.
The Virtue of Aristotle's Ethics
The Virtue of Aristotle's Ethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Virtue of Aristotle's Ethics write by Paula Gottlieb. This book was released on 2009-04-27. The Virtue of Aristotle's Ethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text looks at Aristotle's claims, particularly the much-maligned doctrine of the mean.
Moral Virtue and Nature
Moral Virtue and Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moral Virtue and Nature write by Stephen R. Brown. This book was released on 2008-04-10. Moral Virtue and Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What make someone a good human being? Is there an objective answer to this question, an answer that can be given in naturalistic terms? For ages philosophers have attempted to develop some sort of naturalistic ethics. Against ethical naturalism, however, notable philosophers have contended that such projects are impossible, due to the existence of some sort of 'gap' between facts and values. Others have suggested that teleology, upon which many forms of ethical naturalism depend, is an outdated metaphysical concept. This book argues that a good human being is one who has those traits the possession of which enables someone to achieve those ends natural to beings like us. Thus, the answer to the question of what makes a good human being is given in terms both objective and naturalistic. The author shows that neither 'is-ought' gaps, nor objections concerning teleology pose insurmountable problems for naturalistic virtue ethics. This work is a much needed contribution to the ongoing debate about ethical theory and ethical virtue.
Aquinas and the Infused Moral Virtues
Aquinas and the Infused Moral Virtues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aquinas and the Infused Moral Virtues write by Angela McKay Knobel. This book was released on 2021-10-15. Aquinas and the Infused Moral Virtues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study locates Aquinas’s theory of infused and acquired virtue in his foundational understanding of nature and grace. Aquinas holds that all the virtues are bestowed on humans by God along with the gift of sanctifying grace. Since he also holds, with Aristotle, that we can create virtuous dispositions in ourselves through our own repeated good acts, a question arises: How are we to understand the relationship between the virtues God infuses at the moment of grace and virtues that are gradually acquired over time? In this important book, Angela McKay Knobel provides a detailed examination of Aquinas’s theory of infused moral virtue, with special attention to the question of how the infused and acquired moral virtues are related. Part 1 examines Aquinas’s own explicit remarks about the infused and acquired virtues and considers whether and to what extent a coherent “theory” of the relationship between the infused and acquired virtues can be found in Aquinas. Knobel argues that while Aquinas says almost nothing about how the infused and acquired virtues are related, he clearly does believe that the “structure” of the infused virtues mirrors that of the acquired in important ways. Part 2 uses that structure to evaluate existing interpretations of Aquinas and argues that no existing account adequately captures Aquinas’s most fundamental commitments. Knobel ultimately argues that the correct account lies somewhere between the two most commonly advocated theories. Written primarily for students and scholars of moral philosophy and theology, the book will also appeal to readers interested in understanding Aquinas’s theory of virtue.
