Virtues in Action: New Essays in Applied Virtue Ethics

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Virtue-Centered Approaches to Education: Prospects and Pitfalls....Pages 11-22
The Virtues of Honorable Business Executives....Pages 23-38
Sport as a Moral Practice: An Aristotelian Approach....Pages 39-52
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Sex, Temperance, and Virtue....Pages 55-69
Extend Your Benevolence: Kindness and Generosity in the Family and Beyond....Pages 70-85
A Virtue Ethical Case for Pacifism....Pages 86-101
Some Critical Reflections on Abortion and Virtue Theory....Pages 102-116
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Environmental Degradation, Environmental Justice, and the Compassionate Agent....Pages 119-131
Humility and Environmental Virtue Ethics....Pages 132-149
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
Hope as an Intellectual Virtue....Pages 153-170
Virtue Ethics and Moral Failure: Lessons from Neuroscientific Moral Psychology....Pages 171-189
Getting Our Minds Out of the Gutter: Fallacies that Foul Our Discourse (and Virtues that Clean it Up)....Pages 190-206
Back Matter....Pages 207-222