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Book Chapter
- Author(s):
- Alasdair MacIntyre
- Subject(s):
- Virtue, Virtues, Ethics
- Abstract:
When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Newsweek called it a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world.“ Since that time, the book has been translated into more than fifteen foreign languages and has sold over one hundred thousand copies. Now, twenty-five years later, the University of Notre Dame Press is pleased to rel…
- Date Published:
- 2007-03-06
- Date Created:
- 2007-03-06
- Record Visibility:
- Public
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Book Chapter
- Author(s):
- Gregory Mellema
- Subject(s):
- Responsibility, Accomplices
- Abstract:
In Complicity and Moral Accountability, Gregory Mellema presents a philosophical approach to the moral issues involved in complicity. Starting with a taxonomy of Thomas Aquinas, according to whom there are nine ways for one to become complicit in the wrongdoing of another, Mellema analyzes each kind of complicity and examines the moral status of someone complicit in each of these ways. Mellema’s central argument is that one must perform a contributing action to qualify as an accomplice, a…
- Date Published:
- 2016-04-15
- Date Created:
- 2016-04-15
- Record Visibility:
- Public
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Book Chapter
- Author(s):
- Josef Pieper
- Subject(s):
- Cardinal Virtues
- Abstract:
In The Four Cardinal Virtues, Joseph Pieper delivers a stimulating quartet of essays on the four cardinal virtues. He demonstrates the unsound overvaluation of moderation that has made contemporary morality a hollow convention and points out the true significance of the Christian virtues.
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- Date Published:
- 1990-03-31
- Date Created:
- 1990-03-31
- Record Visibility:
- Public
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Book Chapter
- Author(s):
- Stanley Hauerwas
- Subject(s):
- Christian ethics
- Abstract:
Stanley Hauerwas presents an overall introduction to the themes and method that have distinguished his vision of Christian ethics. Emphasizing the significance of Jesus’ life and teaching in shaping moral life, The Peaceable Kingdom stresses the narrative character of moral rationality and the necessity of a historic community and tradition for morality. Hauerwas systematically develops the importance of character and virtue as elements of decision making and spirituality and stresses n…
- Date Published:
- 1991-08-31
- Date Created:
- 1991-08-31
- Record Visibility:
- Public