The virtues : a very short introduction / Craig A. Boyd and Kevin Timpe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyd, Craig A., author.

Timpe, Kevin, author.

Series:

Very short introductions.

Very short introductions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virtues.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (144 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

The nature of the virtues has a long tradition of thought, from Aristotle to Thomas Aquinas. This book considers the virtues in various cultural, religious, and philosophical contexts. Examining the key virtues, and some of the vices, it explores the cultivation of the virtues as an alternative way of moral thinking.

Contents:

Whose virtues, which vices?

The moral virtues: feeling good about being good

The intellectual virtues: being mindful

Islamic and Confucian accounts of the virtues

The theological virtues: be good, by God!

The capital vices: love gone wrong.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 4, 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-258406-5

0-19-258407-3

0-19-188061-2