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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809523303321

Titolo

Working virtue : 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 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online.

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

Previously issued in print: 2007.

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

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.