Synopses & Reviews
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.
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"This interesting collection of essays on virtue theory at work represents a valuable contribution to a relatively new paradigm of moral inquiry."--S.A. Mason, CHOICE
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"From the many authors that make up Working Virtue comes a wealth of knowledge that can help a generation of professional people who seek to be informed by ethical theory and guided by ethical principle."--Feminist Review
"This interesting collection of essays on virtue theory at work represents a valuable contribution to a relatively new paradigm of moral inquiry."--S.A. Mason, CHOICE
About the Author
Rebecca Walker is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Philip Ivanhoe is Professor of Philosophy at the City University of Hong Kong.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction,
Rebecca L. Walker and Philip J. Ivanhoe2. Caring as Relation and Virtue in Teaching, Nel Noddings
3. Professing Medicine, Virtue Based Ethics and the Retrieval of Professionalism, Edmund D. Pellegrino
4. Doctoring and Self-Forgiveness, Jeffrey Blustein
5. Virtue Ethics as Professional Ethics: The Case of Psychiatry, Jennifer Radden
6. Trust, Suffering, and the Aesculapian Virtues, Annette C. Baier
7. Environmental Virtue Ethics, Rosalind Hursthouse
8. The Good Life for Nonhuman Animals: What Virtue Requires of Humans, Rebecca L. Walker
9. Law, Morality, and Virtue, Peter Koller
10. Virtue Ethics, Role Ethics, and Business Ethics, Christine Swanton
11. Racial Virtues, Lawrence Blum
12. Virtue and a Warrior's Anger, Nancy Sherman
13. Famine, Affluence and Virtue, Michael Slote
14. Filial Piety as a Virtue, Philip J. Ivanhoe