Working virtue : virtue ethics and contemporary moral problems / edited by Rebecca L. Walker, Philip J. Ivanhoe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walker, Rebecca L., editor.

Ivanhoe, Philip J., 1954- editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virtue.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collective study of virtue theory and contemporary moral problems, this work discusses topics in bioethics, professional ethics, ethics of the family, law, interpersonal ethics, and the emotions. It offers a variety of perspectives, including pluralistic, eudaimonistic, care-theoretical, Chinese, comparative and stoic.

Contents:

Introduction / Rebecca L. Walker and Philip J. Ivanhoe

Caring as relation and virtue in teaching / Nel Noddings

Professing medicine, virtue based ethics, and the retrieval of professionalism / Edmund D. Pellegrino

Doctoring and self-forgiveness / Jeffrey Blustein

Virtue ethics as professional ethics: the case of psychiatry / Jennifer Radden

Trust, suffering, and the Aesculapian virtues / Annette C. Baier

Environmental virtue ethics / Rosalind Hursthouse

The good life for non-human animas: what virtue requires of humans / Rebecca L. Walker

Law, morality, and virtue / Peter Koller

Virtue ethics, role ethics, and business ethics / Christine Swanton

Racial virtues / Lawrence Blum

Virtue and a warrior's anger / Nancy Sherman

Famine, affluence, and virtue / Michael Slote

Filial piety as a virtue / Philip J. Ivanhoe.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-04152-0

1-281-16446-1

9786611164461

0-19-151511-6

1-4294-7074-7

OCLC:

476246880