Working Virtue

Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems
Herausgeber: Walker, Rebecca L.; Ivanhoe, Philip J.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Working Virtue is the first substantial collective study of virtue theory and contemporary moral problems. Leading figures in ethical theory and applied ethics discuss topics in bioethics, professional ethics, ethics of the family, law, interpersonal ethics, and the emotions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780199570867
• ISBN-10: 0199570868
• Artikelnr.: 27035508

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Walker is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Philip Ivanhoe is Professor of Philosophy at the City University of Hong Kong.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Rebecca L. Walker and Philip J. Ivanhoe: Introduction
* 2: Nel Noddings: Caring as Relation and Virtue in Teaching
* 3: Edmund D. Pellegrino: Professing Medicine, Virtue Based Ethics and
the Retrieval of Professionalism
* 4: Jeffrey Blustein: Doctoring and Self-Forgiveness
* 5: Jennifer Radden: Virtue Ethics as Professional Ethics: The Case of
Psychiatry
* 6: Annette C. Baier: Trust, Suffering, and the Aesculapian Virtues
* 7: Rosalind Hursthouse: Environmental Virtue Ethics
* 8: Rebecca L. Walker: The Good Life for Nonhuman Animals: What Virtue
Requires of Humans
* 9: Peter Koller: Law, Morality, and Virtue
* 10: Christine Swanton: Virtue Ethics, Role Ethics, and Business
Ethics
* 11: Lawrence Blum: Racial Virtues
* 12: Nancy Sherman: Virtue and a Warrior's Anger
* 13: Michael Slote: Famine, Affluence and Virtue
* 14: Philip J. Ivanhoe: Filial Piety as a Virtue