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Virtue and the Moral Life
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 …
Everyday Ethics
What might we learn if the study of ethics focused less on hard cases and more on the practices of everyday life? In Everyday Ethics, Michael Lamb and Brian Williams gather some of …
Putting On Virtue
Augustine famously claimed that the virtues of pagan Rome were nothing more than splendid vices. This critique reinvented itself as a suspicion of acquired virtue as such, and true …
Business Ethics and Catholic Social Thought
A comprehensive overview of the contribution of Catholic social thought to business ethics Can a religion founded on loving one’s neighbor give moral approval to profit-seeking …
Putting On Virtue
Augustine famously claimed that the virtues of pagan Rome were nothing more than splendid vices. This critique reinvented itself as a suspicion of acquired virtue as such, and true …
Religion and Faction in Hume's Moral Philosophy
This book explores Hume's concern with the destructiveness of religious factions and his efforts to develop, in his moral philosophy, a solution to factional conflict. Sympathy and …
Assuming Responsibility
Recent decades have witnessed an enthusiastic retrieval of eudaimonism, according to which the virtuous life is the happy life. But the critique launched by Kant - that eudaimonism …
Assuming Responsibility
Recent decades have witnessed an enthusiastic retrieval of eudaimonism, according to which the virtuous life is the happy life. But the critique launched by Kant - that eudaimonism …
Forming Humanity
Kant's proclamation of humankind's emergence from "e;self-incurred immaturity"e; left his contemporaries with a puzzle: What models should we use to sculpt ourselves if we …
Forming Humanity: Redeeming the German Bildung Tradition
Augustine and Social Justice
This volume brings into dialogue the ancient wisdom of Augustine of Hippo, a bishop of the early Christian Church of the fourth and fifth centuries, with contemporary theologians …