In the United States, there exists increasing uneasiness about the predominance of self-interest in both public and private life, growing fear about the fragmentation and privatization of American society, mounting concerns about the effects of institutions - ranging from families to schools to the media - on the character of young people, and a renewed tendency to believe that without certain traditional virtues neither public leaders nor public policies are likely to succeed. In this 34th volume, sponsored by the American Society of Legal and Political Philosophy, a distinguished group of international scholars from a range of disciplines examine what is meant by virtue, analyzing various historical and analytical meanings of virtue, notions of liberal virtue, civic virtue, and judicial virtue, and the nature of secular and theological types of virtue. The contributors include - Jean Baechler, Annette C. Baier, Ronald Beiner, Christopher J.Berry, J.Budziszewski, Charles Larmore, David Luban, Stephen Macedo, Michael J.Perry, Terry Pinkard, Jonathan Riley, George Sher, Judith N.Shklar, Rogers M.Smith, David A.Strauss, and Joan C.Williams.
