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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785095203321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-383-04152-0

1-281-16446-1

9786611164461

0-19-151511-6

1-4294-7074-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Classificazione

08.38

Altri autori (Persone)

WalkerRebecca L

IvanhoeP. J

Disciplina

179/.9

Soggetti

Virtue

Ethics

Moral conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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. - ; 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. Virtue ethics is centrally concerned with