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VIRTUE ETHICS

Virtue ethics has emerged from a rich history to become one of the fastest-growing fields in contemporary ethics. In this volume of newly commissioned essays, leading moral philosophers offer a comprehensive overview of virtue ethics. They examine the theoretical structure of virtue ethics and its place in contemporary moral theory, as well as the history of virtue-based approaches to ethics, what makes these approaches distinctive, what they can say about specific practical issues, and where we can expect them to go in the future. This Companion will be useful to students of virtue ethics and the history of ethics, and to others who want to understand how virtue ethics is changing the face of contemporary moral philosophy.

daniel c. russell is Professor of Philosophy at the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom and the Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona, and the Percy Seymour Reader in Ancient History and Philosophy at Ormond College, University of Melbourne. He is the author of Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life (2005), Practical Intelligence and the Virtues (2009), and Happiness for Humans (2012).

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The Cambridge Companion to

VIRTUE ETHICS

Edited by Daniel C. Russell

University of Arizona

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contents

List of contributors Acknowledgments List of figures

Introduction: virtue ethics in modern moral philosophy daniel c. russell

1 Virtue ethics, happiness, and the good life daniel c. russell

2 Ancient virtue ethics: an overview with an emphasis on practical wisdom rachana kamtekar

3 Virtue ethics and the Chinese Confucian tradition philip j. ivanhoe

4 Virtue ethics in the medieval period jean porter

5 Hume's anatomy of virtue paul russell

6 The historic decline of virtue ethics dorothea frede

7 Virtue ethics in the twentieth century timothy chappell

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viii Contents

8 Virtue ethics and right action

172

liezl van zyl

9 Virtue ethics and bioethics

197

justin oakley

10 Environmental virtue ethics: what it is and what

it needs to be

221

matt zwolinski and david schmidtz

11 The virtue approach to business ethics

240

edwin hartman

12 Virtue and politics

265

mark lebar

13 The situationist critique of virtue ethics

290

gopal sreenivasan

14 The definition of virtue ethics

315

christine swanton

Bibliography

339

Index

363

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