Kristjan Kristjansson (Professor of Character Education and Virtue

Gebundenes Buch

Friendship for Virtue

Beschreibung

This book gives the virtue of friendship the prominence it deserves in contemporary virtue ethics. It offers a more realistic version of Aristotelian theory and integrates it with social scientific research on friendship. And it argues for the importance of friendship in moral education, as a path to to the development of virtue.

Autor

Professor Kristján Kristjánsson is Deputy Director in the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues and Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics, University of Birmingham. His interests lie in research on character and virtues at the intersection between moral philosophy, moral psychology, and moral education. He has published nine books on those issues, the latest one is Flourishing as the Aim of Education (2020). His previous books include Aristotelian Character Education (2015), which won the SES Prize for the best Education book of 2015, and Virtuous Emotions (2018). Kristjánsson is Editor of the Journal of Moral Education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 163mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9780192864260
• ISBN-10: 0192864262
• Artikelnr.: 65825611