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Radical Virtues: Moral Wisdom and the Ethics of Contemporary Life de Richard White

Radical Virtues: Moral Wisdom and the Ethics of Contemporary Life

Autor Richard White
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 mar 2008
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780742561007
ISBN-10: 0742561003
Pagini: 201
Dimensiuni: 154 x 229 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

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

Recenzii

A virtuous book - it performs its function well, showing us what virtue is and how the virtuous life is lived in particular societies and leads us toward moral wisdom. White's analysis is thoughtful and temperate with a cross-cultural sensitivity that enhances traditional approaches to the virtue.
Radical Virtues, an innovative and exciting text, grounds the virtues in contemporary issues: this is a considerable asset. As White skillfully and plausibly shows, the virtues can infect everything we say about them, and the very readable prose will make this book useful for students and lay readers. It will advance the conversation considerably.
Richard White's Radical Virtues is a lovely, timely book, and a pleasure to read. Few have so successfully bridged the gap between focused scholarship and making important ideas available to a larger public that in fact is in desperate need of them. Furthermore, the virtues are here rescued from some of the reactionary purposes to which they have been put in recent decades. This book opens a pathway toward a moral life of greater depth, and therefore it engages in a crucial, albeit uphill, struggle of our present period of social and individual depthlessness.
White offers a fresh look at five core virtues: courage, temperance, justice, compassion, and wisdom. He explores a range of possible interpretations of each across both time and cultures....Recommended.
...non-technical style and language accessible to the readers outside academic circles.... Recommend.... Could profitably be assigned to upper level undergraduates in courses in moral theory or social and political philosophy.... Useful.
The strength of Radical Virtues is the author's ability to present the classical authors in a way that is accessible to students and relevant to the social-political issues with which they are increasingly concerned.