Radical Virtues

Moral Wisdom and the Ethics of Contemporary Life

Richard White (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

212 Seiten

2008
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7425-6100-7 (ISBN)

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Richard White explores how moral virtues affect and support social movements such as pacifism, environmentalism, multiculturalism, and animal rights. White's philosophical treatment of virtue ethics is extended through historical and cross-cultural analysis to help the reader understand and acquire moral wisdom.

What is a good life? What does it mean to be a good person? Richard White answers these questions by considering aspects of moral goodness through the virtues: courage, temperance, justice, compassion and wisdom. White explores how moral virtues affect and support social movements such as pacifism, environmentalism, multiculturalism, and animal rights. Drawing on the works of Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Nietzsche and others, White's philosophical treatment of virtue ethics is extended through historical and cross-cultural analysis, and he examines the lives of Socrates, Buddha, and Gandhi who lived virtuous lives to help the reader understand and acquire moral wisdom.

Richard White is professor of philosophy at Creighton University. He is the author of Nietzsche and the Problem of Sovereignty (1997) and Love's Philosophy (2001), also published by Rowman & Littlefield.

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter One: Courage Chapter 3 Chapter Two: Temperance Chapter 4 Chapter Three: Justice Chapter 5 Chapter Four: Compassion Chapter 6 Chapter Five: Wisdom Chapter 7 Conclusion

Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 229 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	0-7425-6100-3 / 0742561003
ISBN-13	978-0-7425-6100-7 / 9780742561007
Zustand	Neuware