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Titolo: | Working virtue : virtue ethics and contemporary moral problems / / edited by Rebecca L. Walker, Philip J. Ivanhoe |
Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (330 pages) |
Disciplina: | 179/.9 |
Soggetto topico: | Virtue |
Ethics | |
Moral conditions | |
Classificazione: | 08.38 |
Altri autori: | WalkerRebecca L IvanhoeP. J |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Working virtue |
ISBN: | 1-383-04152-0 |
1-281-16446-1 | |
9786611164461 | |
0-19-151511-6 | |
1-4294-7074-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910809523303321 |
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