David McPherson

The Virtues of Limits

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the place of limits within a well-lived human life and develops and defends an original account of limiting virtues, which are concerned with recognizing proper limits in human life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 148mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780192848536
• ISBN-10: 0192848534
• Artikelnr.: 63512718

Autorenporträt

David McPherson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Creighton University. He works in the areas of ethics (especially virtue ethics), political philosophy, meaning in life, and philosophy of religion. He is the author of Virtue and Meaning: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and editor of Spirituality and the Good Life: Philosophical Approaches (Cambridge University Press, 2017). He is President of Philosophers in Jesuit Education, and he is also a co-founder of The Heartland Virtue Ethics Network.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Existential Limits
2: Moral Limits
3: Political Limits
4: Economic Limits