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Virtues and Their Vices
Virtues and Their Vices is the only extant contemporary, comprehensive treatment of specific virtues and, where applicable, their competing vices. Each of the essays, written exclusively for this volume, not only locates discussion of that virtue in its historical context, but also advances the discussion and debate concerning the understanding and role of the virtues. Each of the first four sections focuses on a particular, historically important class of virtues: the cardinal virtues, the capital vices (or "seven deadly sins") and the corrective virtues, intellectual virtues, and the theological virtues. The final section discusses the role virtue theory and the virtues themselves play in ...
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Common Good
In an age of moral confusion, people are looking for answers. The conflicting demands of our time and the cultural and social upheaval that we witness daily have left people confused and exhausted. Many are looking for resources to help them understand current developments, timeless truths, and the relationship between the two. This book can help. Here, the author examines a number of character qualities, vices and virtues we all encounter daily. Through attending to these, we can bring greater clarity into our personal lives and relationships. Moreover, through avoiding the vices and cultivating the virtues examined here, we can greatly improve our chances of living lives marked by peace, meaning, and happiness.
Disguised Vices
The notions of virtue and vice are vital components of the Western ethical tradition. But in early modern France they were called into question, as writers such as La Rochefoucauld argued that what appears as virtue is in fact disguised vice. Disguised Vices analyses the underlying logic of such claims, and explores what is at stake in them.
Putting On Virtue
This work reveals how a distrust of learned and habituated virtue shaped both early modern Christian moral reflection and secular forms of ethical thought. The author's broad historical sweep takes in the Aristotelian tradition as taken up by Thomas Aquinas and has chapters on Luther, Bunyan, the Jansenists, Hume, and others.
Virtues and Vices and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy
The final eight essays chart her growing disenchantment with emotivism and prescriptivism and their account of moral arguments. All the essays embody to some extent her commitment to an ethics of virtue.
VICES & VIRTUES
Vices and Virtues is a collection of short stories and poetry created by students on the BA (Hons) Creative and Professional Writing course at The University of Nottingham. Local writers and students on the course produced work inspired by the seven deadly sins and the seven heavenly virtues.
Vices & Virtues, Knowing, Accepting, and Improving Yourself
Behind every virtue is a vice. Likewise, behind every vice is a virtue that, when developed and strengthened, can overcome the vice, writes Fr. Ortega, an authority in moral behavior. In Vices and Virtues, he reveals how to leverage faults and weaknesses to forge virtues. In this three-part how-to guide, readers will get to know themselves with honesty, learn to accept themselves and their faults in humility, and begin to improve their lives by cultivating virtues. It might seem like an impossible task, but you'll have help and motivation from the highest source. Developing virtue can help you achieve balance in your life and holiness.
