Virtue Ethics: Retrospect and Prospect

1. Front Matter

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2. Some Questions About Virtue

   • John Haldane

   Pages 1-16

3. Virtue as the Order of Inner Life

   • Margarita Mauri Alvarez

   Pages 17-25

4. Virtues. The Aristotelian-Thomistic Line of Thinking

   • Michael Wladika

   Pages 27-42

5. The Soft Presence of Wittgenstein in Virtue Ethics and His Hard Significance for Its Future

   • Marco Damonte

   Pages 43-57

6. The Humean Sentimentalist Learns from the Aristotelian Anscombe

   • Michael Slote

   Pages 59-66

7. Wisdom and the Origins of Moral Knowledge

   • Randall Curren

   Pages 67-80

8. Some Complexities of Categorizing Character Traits

   • Christian B. Miller

   Pages 81-98

9. Does Virtue Ethics Allow Us to Make Better Judgments of the Actions of Others?

   • Liezl van Zyl

   Pages 99-110

10. Virtue Ethics, Teleology, and Religion in the Aristotelian Tradition

    • Christopher D. Owens

    Pages 111-123

11. Virtue Without Law? A Problem and Prospect for Virtue Ethics

    • Scott J. Roniger

    Pages 125-145

12. Liberal Perfectionism and the Virtues

    • Michele Mangini

    Pages 147-163

13. The Big Risk Behind the Explosion of Virtues

    • Elisa Grimi

    Pages 165-175

14. Proliferating Virtues: A Clear and Present Danger?

    • Nancy E. Snow

    Pages 177-196

15. Sacrifice in Eudaimonistic Virtue Ethics

    • Christopher Toner

    Pages 197-207

The rise of the phenomenon of virtue ethics in recent years has increased at a rapid pace. Such an explosion carries with it a number of great possibilities, as well as risks. This volume has been written to contribute a multi-faceted perspective to the current conversation about virtue. Among many other thought-provoking questions, the collection addresses the following: What are the virtues, and how are they enumerated? What are the internal problems among ethicists, and what are the objections and replies to contemporary virtue ethics? Additionally, the practical implications following from the answers to these questions are discussed in new and fascinating research. Fundamental concepts such as teleology and eudaimonism are addressed from both a historical and dialectical approach. This tome will contribute not only to providing further clarity to the current horizons in virtue ethics, but also to the practical conclusion following from the study: to challenge the reader towarda greater pursuit of the virtuous life.

• Virtue ethics and other-directed moral judgments
• Relationship between law and virtue
• A person's moral character
• Virtue Ethics
• Sociological analysis of ethical problems
• Philosophy of society
• Philosophy of education
• Aristotle’s ethics
• Values, Virtues and Rights
• Virtue without Law
• Thomas Aquinas
• Elizabeth Anscombe

• European Society for Moral Philosophy, Milan, Italy

  Elisa Grimi

​Elisa GRIMI is Executive Director of the European Society for Moral Philosophy, the editor-in-chief of the international journal Philosophical News and Project Manager of philojotter.com. On 30th May, 2014, she received the Paolo Michele Erede Foundation First Prize with a work on ‘Politics and Network’. She has studied and worked at various universities throughout the world, in countries including Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, England, France and the United States. She is the author of numerous publications, including her first Italian monograph G.E.M. Anscombe: The Dragon Lady (2014) with direct testimonies, the collected volume Tradition as the Future of Innovation (Cantagalli 2015), co-author with Rémi Brague of Contro il cristianismo e l’umanismo. Il perdono dell’Occidente (Cantagalli 2016), editor of the collection Tradition as the Future for Innovation (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016) and of the DossierLa philosophie de l’humilité (Recherches Philosophiques, ICT, 2017). 

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