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Virtue : Nomos XXXIV / edited by John W. Chapman and William A. Galston.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Nomos ; 34.
- Nomos ; 34
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Virtues.
- Virtue.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (421 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, 1992.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the United States, there exists increasing uneasiness about the predominance of self-interest in both public and private life, growing fear about the fragmentation and privatization of American society, mounting concerns about the effects of institutions-ranging from families to schools to the media-on the character of young people, and a renewed tendency to believe that without certain traditional virtues neither public leaders nor public policies are likely to succeed. In this thirty-fourth volume in The American Society of Legal and Political Philosophy , a distinguished group of interna
- Contents:
- 9780814714997_Chapman_frnt; 9780814714997_Chapman_text.pdf; CONTENTS; Preface; Contributors; Introduction; PART I: ANALYTICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES; 1. Virtue: Its Nature, Exigency, and Acquisition; 2. Religion and Civic Virtue; 3. Adam Smith and the Virtues of Commerce; PART II: EPISTEMOLOGY OF THE VIRTUES; 4. Knowing about Virtue; 5. Virtues and Relativism; 6. On the Good of Knowing Virtue; PART III: LIBERALISM, NEUTRALITY, AND LIBERAL VIRTUES; 7. The Moral Vocabulary of Liberalism; 8. The Limits of Aristotelian Ethics; 9. The Liberal Virtues; 10. Charting Liberal Virtues
- PART IV: JUDICIAL VIRTUE11. Justice Holmes and Judicial Virtue; 12. Judicial Virtue and Democratic Politics; 13. Justice without Virtue; PART V: SOME SPECIAL VIRTUES; 14. Some Virtues of Resident Alienage; 15. Virtue and Oppression; 16. LIberal Philanthropy; Virtue: A Brief Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780814772720
- 0814772722
- 9780814790250
- 0814790259
- OCLC:
- 784884510
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