Phenomenology and virtue ethics / edited by Kevin Hermberg and Paul Gyllenhammer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hermberg, Kevin, editor of compilation.

Series:

Issues in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics

Issues in phenomenology and hermeneutics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Phenomenology.

Virtue.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The correlation between person and environment has long been a central focus of phenomenological analysis. While phenomenology is usually understood as a descriptive discipline showing how essential features of the human encounter with things and people in the world are articulated, phenomenology is also based on ethical concerns. Husserl himself, the founder of the movement, gave several lecture courses on ethics. This volume focuses on one trend in ethics virtue ethics and its connection to phenomenology. The essays explore how phenomenology contributes to this field of ethics and clarifies some of its central issues, such as flourishing and good character traits. The volume initiates a conversation with virtue ethicists that is underrepresented in the current literature. Phenomenology and Virtue Ethics offers contributions from prominent phenomenologists who explore the following issues: how phenomenology is connected to the ancient Greek or Christian virtue tradition, how phenomenology and its foundational thinkers are oriented toward virtue ethics, and how phenomenology is itself a virtue discipline. The focus on phenomenology and virtue ethics in a single volume is the first of its kind."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Notes on Contributors ; Phenomenology and Virtue Ethics: an Introduction / Kevin Hermberg

Part I: Phenomenology and the Tradition. 1. Phainomenon and Logos in Aristotle's Ethics / Lawrence J. Hatab ; 2. 'Disimpropriation' and Infused Virtue: The Question of (Christian) Virtue Ethics in the Phenomenology of Michel Henry / Michelle Rebidoux ; 3. Being and Virtuousness: Toward a Platonic-Heideggerian Virtue Ethics / Matthew King ; 4. Horizon Intentionality and Aristotelian Friendship / Eric Chelstrom ; 5. Value, Affectivity, and Virtue in Aristotle, Scheler, and von Hildebrand / Gregory B. Sadler

Part II: Theoretical and Contemporary Comparative Accounts. 6. Phenomenology, Eudaimonia, and the Virtues / John J. Drummond ; 7. Phenomenology and Virtue Ethics: Complementary Anti-Theoretical Methodological and Ethical Trajectories? / Jack Reynolds ; 8. Phenomenology and the Virtues: Scheler and von Hildebrand / Robert Wood ; 9. The Self that Recedes: A Phenomenology of Virtue / J. Jeremy Wisnewski

Part III: Application of Phenomenology as a Virtue Discipline. 10. The Virtues of Agency: A Phenomenology of Security, Courage and Creativity / John Russon ; 11. Heideggerian Perfectionism and the Phenomenology of the Pedagogical Truth Event / Iain Thomson ; 12. Descent to the Things Themselves: The Virtue of Dissent / John Duncan ; 13. Correlates of the Good Life: Body, Wilderness and Expertise / Paul Gyllenhammer

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472548153

1472548159

9781780937953

1780937954

OCLC:

863221500