Varieties of Virtue Ethics

349 Pages·2017·3.42 MB·English

by  David Carr

Varieties
of Virtue
Ethics
edited by
david carr
james arthur
kristján kristjánsson
Varieties of Virtue Ethics
David Carr • James Arthur • Kristján Kristjánsson
Editors
Varieties of Virtue
Ethics
Editors James Arthur
David Carr Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues
University of Birmingham University of Birmingham
Birmingham, UK Birmingham, UK
Kristján Kristjánsson
University of Birmingham, Birmingham,
UK
ISBN 978-1-137-59176-0 ISBN 978-1-137-59177-7 (eBook)
DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-59177-7
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Contents
1 Varieties of Virtue Ethics: Introduction 1
David Carr, James Arthur, and Kristján Kristjánsson
Part I Philosophical Varieties of Virtue and Virtue Ethics 15
2 Varieties of Virtue Ethics 17
Robert C. Roberts
3 Which Variety of Virtue Ethics? 35
Julia Annas
4 Against Idealization in Virtue Ethics 53
Howard J. Curzer
5 Virtue Ethics in the Medieval Period 73
John Haldane
6 Iris Murdoch and the Varieties of Virtue Ethics 89
Konrad Banicki
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7 Confucian and Daoist Virtue Ethics 105
May Sim
Part II Virtue Ethics in the Wider Academic Context 123
8 Aristotelian Ethical Virtue: Naturalism
Without Measure 125
Jonathan Jacobs
9 Categorizing Character: Moving Beyond the Aristotelian
Framework 143
Christian B. Miller
10 Human Practice and God’s Making-Good
in Aquinas’ Virtue Ethics 163
Richard Conrad
11 Recovered Goods: Durkheimian Sociology
as Virtue Ethics 181
Philip S. Gorski
12 The Deep Psychology of Eudaimonia and Virtue:
Belonging, Loyalty and the Anterior Cingulate Cortex 199
Blaine J. Fowers
13 Virtue, the Common Good and Self-Transcendence 217
Candace Vogler
Part III V irtue Ethics and the Wider Professional
and Educational Context 231
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14 Plato on the Necessity of Imitation and Habituation
for the Cultivation of the Virtues 233
Mark E. Jonas
15 Maintaining Primary Professional Virtues by Protecting
Properly Oriented Relationships: Medical Practice
as a Case Study 249
Justin Oakley
16 “Till We Have Faces”: Second-Person Relatedness
as the Object, End and Crucial Circumstance
of Perfect or “Infused” Virtues 267
Andrew Pinsent
17 The Seduction of Kierkegaard’s Aesthetic Sphere 281
Kevin Gary
18 Distinguishing Post-traumatic Growth
from Psychological Adjustment Among
Rwandan Genocide Survivors 299
Laura E.R. Blackie, Eranda Jayawickreme, Nicki Hitchcott,
and Stephen Joseph
19 Educating for the Wisdom of Virtue 319
David Carr
Index 337
Contributor Contact Information
Julia Annas Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Konrad  Banicki Institute of Applied Psychology, Jagiellonian University in
Krakow, Kraków, Poland
Laura E.R. Blackie Department of French and Francophone Studies, University
of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
D. Carr Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham,
Birmingham, UK
Richard Conrad Aquinas InstituteBlackfriars, Oxford, UK
Howard J.  Curzer Department of Philosophy, Texas Tech University,
Lubbock, TX, USA
Blaine Fowers Department of Educational and Psychological Studies, University
of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
Kevin Gary Department of Education, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN,
USA
Phillip S. Gorski Department of Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, CT,
USA
John  J.  Haldane Department of Philosophy, University of St Andrews, St
Andrews, UK
Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA
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x Contributor Contact Information
Jonathan Jacobs Department of Philosophy, John Jay College of Criminal Justice,
New York, NY, USA
Mark E. Jonas Department of Education, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, USA
Christian Miller Department of Philosophy, Wake Forest University, Winston-
Salem, NC, USA
Justin Oakley Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University, Melbourne,
VIC, Australia
Andrew Pinsent Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, Oxford University,
Oxford, UK
Robert C. Roberts Philosophy Department, Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA
K. Kristjansson, Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of
Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
May Sim Department of Philosophy, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA,
USA
Candace Vogler Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL,
USA
List of Figures
Fig. 9.1 The simplistic taxonomy of character types 146
Fig. 9.2 Aristotle’s taxonomy of character types 150
Fig. 9.3 Larry’s frequency of helping in all the helping
opportunities he encountered in one year 155
Fig. 9.4 Larry’s high within-person variability in helping
motivation over one year 156
Fig. 9.5 The three-category taxonomy of character types 157
Fig. 9.6 Categorizing most people with regard to helping 160
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