Difficult Virtues
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Difficult Virtues
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Author : Howard J. Curzer
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-03-07
Difficult Virtues written by Howard J. Curzer and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-07 with Philosophy categories.
In this book, Howard J. Curzer describes eight virtues that have proven problematic to virtue ethicists. Integrity has been the subject of wildly different accounts. Open-mindedness and forgiveness are described in ways that many endorse, but few seek to practice. Accounts of tolerance and civility generally fit only the privileged. Finally, good timing, ambition, and creativity have attracted almost no attention at all. Curzer offers novel, plausible accounts of all of these eight difficult virtues, and demonstrates that they possess the standard features of Aristotelian virtues (for example, conformity to the Doctrine of the Mean). This enlarges the scope of Aristotelian virtue ethics by enabling it to cover eight additional spheres of human life. Using these difficult virtues as springboards and extrapolating from some of Aristotle’s remarks, Curzer codifies some standard features of Aristotelian virtues, and speculatively suggests additional features to enhance the descriptive and prescriptive power of Aristotelian virtue ethics. Thus, Curzer adds to the standard list of Aristotelian virtues and to the standard list of features that make virtues Aristotelian. Each difficult virtue is different, but certain themes thread through all of them: self-construction, social critique, and significant creation. Curzer’s accounts of these virtues illuminate the ways people forge their own identities, struggle to acquire virtue despite disadvantage, and produce and appreciate novelty.
Seven Virtues For Success
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Author : George Tsakiridis
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2021-12-15
Seven Virtues For Success written by George Tsakiridis and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-15 with Self-Help categories.
Life is not fair. It is a lesson all of us learn at one time or another. Despite this, we have trouble accepting this plain truth. At a certain point, we have to realize that we are not subject to the whims of the world. We have to take control of our character. In Seven Virtues for Success, the reader engages this practical truth about navigating life. We cannot control those around us, but we can control our own thoughts and actions. While meditating on these seven cardinal virtues--humility, gratitude, diligence, agency, relationship, forgiveness, and kindness--the reader is invited to set their mind towards a foundation of character. Once our character is strong, the difficulties of life become easier to encounter. The road is straightforward, yet difficult, as history has shown us through religious texts and wisdom literature. This book is a distillation of thought on character building in the modern age. Starting with the ancient method of building habit found in Aristotle, it begins the path to thinking about how we build our own virtues and set our mind on the road to success.
The Skillfulness Of Virtue
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Author : Matt Stichter
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-04
The Skillfulness Of Virtue written by Matt Stichter and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-04 with Philosophy categories.
Proposes that virtues are skills that we can work on improving, using psychological research on self-regulation and expertise.
Towards A Complex Perfectionism
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Author : Peter Scheers
language : en
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Release Date : 2005
Towards A Complex Perfectionism written by Peter Scheers and has been published by Peeters Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Philosophy categories.
This book examines the content of a complex perfective anthropology beyond absolute, abstract, negative and minimalist readings. A rich sense of perfection is here to stay because of the ineradicable existential role of gradational estimation in terms of better and worse. The first section focuses on the connection between hermeneutics and perfectionism. The author claims that a hermeneutical conception of interpretation unavoidably implies a perfective scheme of better and worse, and that a contemporary perfectionism should be based exactly on a hermeneutical theory of interpretation. The second section introduces a differentiated language of perfection as positive. The author argues that we need a plurivocal list of kinds and levels of perfection as to be able to reach a higher sense of estimation. Human appraisal itself, so it turns out, can be undertaken in better and worse ways. The third section consolidates and extends the idea of a perfective anthropology. Here we are brought to a consideration of ourselves as organisms of a certain kind, of the personalised aspects of the human quest for perfection, of perfective experience in the context of concrete practices, and of the possibility of future perfection. The book ends with a chapter on environmental perfectionism, arguing that a benign human interpretation of non-human nature should include a careful application of the perfective concept of a life story to the realm of plants and animals. This application is meant to underscore the moral insight that we are not the only heroes of perfective being.
On The Virtues
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Author : Jean Capreolus
language : en
Publisher: CUA Press
Release Date : 2001-10
On The Virtues written by Jean Capreolus and has been published by CUA Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The selection from Capreolus's work represented in this translation shows him defending Aquinas's conclusions on faith, hope, charity, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and the virtues against such adversaries.
Contingency And Fortune In Aquinas S Ethics
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Author : John Bowlin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1999-06-28
Contingency And Fortune In Aquinas S Ethics written by John Bowlin and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-06-28 with Philosophy categories.
In this study John Bowlin argues that Aquinas's moral theology receives much of its character and content from an assumption about our common lot: the good we desire is difficult to know and to will, in particular because of contingencies of various kinds - within ourselves, in the ends and objects we pursue, and in the circumstances of choice. Since contingencies are fortune's effects, Aquinas insists that it is fortune that makes good choice difficult. Bowlin then explicates Aquinas's treatment of a number of topics in light of this difficulty: the moral and theological virtues, the first precepts of the natural law, the voluntariness of virtuous action, and the happiness available to us in this life. By noting that Aquinas proceeds with an eye on fortune's threats to virtue, agency, and happiness, Bowlin places him more precisely in the history of ethics, among Aristotle, Augustine, and the Stoics.
Rousseau The Discourses And Other Early Political Writings
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Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997-07-13
Rousseau The Discourses And Other Early Political Writings written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-07-13 with History categories.
The work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is presented in two volumes, together forming a comprehensive anthology of Rousseau's political writings in English. This second volume contains the earlier writings such as the First and Second Discourses, the publication of which signalled the power and challenge of Rousseau's thinking. Rousseau's influence was wide reaching and has continued to grow since his death: major landmarks in world history, such as the American and French Revolutions, were profoundly affected by Rousseau's writing, as were cultural and intellectual movements such as Romanticism and Idealism. This volume, like its successor, contains a comprehensive introduction, chronology and guide to further reading and will enable students to obtain a full understanding of the writings of one of the world's greatest thinkers.
Confucius A Guide For The Perplexed
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Author : Yong Huang
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-01-03
Confucius A Guide For The Perplexed written by Yong Huang and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-03 with Religion categories.
A clear and thorough account of Confucius and his ideas, underscoring his relevance to both Chinese people and to people in the West.
Panoplist And Missionary Magazine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1807
Panoplist And Missionary Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1807 with Congregational churches categories.
The Panoplist Or The Christian S Armory
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1807
The Panoplist Or The Christian S Armory written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1807 with Congregational churches categories.