Working Virtue : Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems.
Title:
Working Virtue : Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems.
Author:
Walker, Rebecca L.
ISBN:
9780191515118
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (330 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Caring as Relation and Virtue in Teaching -- 3. Professing Medicine, Virtue Based Ethics, and the Retrieval of Professionalism -- 4. Doctoring and Self-Forgiveness -- 5. Virtue Ethics as Professional Ethics: The Case of Psychiatry -- 6. Trust, Suffering, and the Aesculapian Virtues -- 7. Environmental Virtue Ethics -- 8. The Good Life for Non-Human Animals: What Virtue Requires of Humans -- 9. Law, Morality, and Virtue -- 10. Virtue Ethics, Role Ethics, and Business Ethics -- 11. Racial Virtues -- 12. Virtue and a Warrior's Anger -- 13. Famine, Affluence, and Virtue -- 14. Filial Piety as a Virtue -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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