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Virtue and the Moral Life

Theological and Philosophical Perspectives
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The scope of interest and reflection on virtue and the virtues is as wide and deep as the questions we can ask about what makes a moral agent's life decent, or noble, or holy rather than cruel, or base, or sinful; or about the conditions of human character and circumstance that make for good relations between family members, friends, workers, fellow citizens, and strangers, and the sorts of conditions that do not. Clearly these questions will inevitably be directed to more finely grained features of everyday life in particular contexts. Virtue and the Moral Life: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives takes up these questions. In its ten timely and original chapters, it considers the specific importance of virtue ethics, its public significance for shaping a society's common good, the value of civic integrity, warfare and returning soldiers' sense of enlarged moral responsibility, the care for and agency of children in contemporary secular consumer society, and other questions involving moral failure, humility, and forgiveness.
Preface Part I: Why Virtue? Chapter One: Seven Reasons for Doing Virtue Ethics Today James F. Keenan, S.J. Chapter Two: Augustine and the Liturgical Pedagogy of Virtue Jennifer A. Herdt Part II: Virtue, Conscience, and Public Life Chapter Three: Historical Accountability and the Virtue of Civic Integrity Margaret Urban Walker Chapter Four: Moral Grief and Reflective Virtue Mark A. Wilson Part III: Virtue, Children, and the Family Chapter Five: Children, Virtue Ethics, and Consumer Culture Mary M. Doyle Roche Chapter Six: Passing on the Faith in an Era of Rising `Nones': Practicing Courage and Humility Julie Hanlon Rubio Part IV: Virtue and Moral Failure Chapter Seven: Sin, Sickness, and Transgression: Medieval Perspectives on Sin and Their Significance Today Jean Porter Chapter Eight: Making More Space for Moral Failure Lisa Tessman Part V: Virtue and the Challenge of Otherness Chapter Nine: Distinguishing Humility and Justice in Christian and Islamic Virtue Jamie Schillinger Chapter Ten: Human Corruption and the Possibility of Love: Dostoevskian Ruminations on Forgiveness Edmund N. Santurri
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