Robert C. Roberts

Attention to Virtues

An Affective Grammar

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This book explores the virtues of good character, and includes well-illustrated accounts of generosity, gratitude, compassion, forgivingness, truthfulness, patience, courage, justice, and a sense of duty - relating these traits to human concerns and the emotions that express them in the circumstances of life"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 345
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009570954
• ISBN-10: 1009570951
• Artikelnr.: 73530808

Autorenporträt

Robert C. Roberts is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Ethics at Baylor University, Texas. He is the author of Emotions: An Essay in Aid of Moral Psychology (Cambridge, 2003), Emotions in the Moral Life (Cambridge, 2013), and (with Jay Wood) Intellectual Virtues: An Essay in Regulative Epistemology (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introductory: 1. Attention to virtues
2. The elements of moral character
Part II. Virtues of Direct Caring: 3. Generosity and gratitude
4. Compassion
5. Forgivingness
6. Truth and truthfulness
Part III. The Enkratic Virtues: 7. Self-control, courage, patience, and perseverance
Part IV. Virtues of Indirect Caring: 8. Justice
9. The sense of duty
10. Temperance
Part V. A Virtue of Indifference: 11. Humility
Conclusion: 12. Practical wisdom and the rationality of emotions
Bibliography
Index.