Table of Contents

1: Roger Crisp: Introduction. Modern moral philosophy and the virtues
2: Rosalind Hursthouse: Practical Ethics. Normative virtue ethics
3: T. H. Irwin: Ancient Views. The virtues: theory and common sense in Greek philosophy
4: John Cottingham: Impartiality and Partiality. Partiality and the virtues
5: Onora O'Neill: Kant. Kant's virtues
6. Utilitarianism. Virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and symmetry: (Michael Slote:
7: Julia Driver: Human Nature. The virtues and human nature
8: David Wiggins: Natural and Artificial Virtues. A vindication of Hume's scheme
9: Brad Hooker: Virtues and the Good. Does moral virtue constitute a benefit to the agent?
10: Gabriele Taylor: Vices. Deadly vices?
11: Michael Stocker: Emotions. How emotions reveal value and help cure the schizophrenia of modern ethical theories
12: Andrew Mason: Politics. MacIntyre on modernity and how it has marginalized the virtues
13: Susan Moller Okin: Feminism and Moral Education. Feminism, moral development, and the virtues
14: Lawrence Blum: Community. Community and virtue

Reviews

`I can strongly recommend Crisp's collection to anyone interested in virtue ethics. It is thought-provoking, and will certainly stimulate the debate on virtue theory.'
Peter Schaber, Philosophical Quarterly
`This is a superb collection of essays on the virtues ... Crisp's collection consists of nothing but original essays - all of high quality - and his own introduction is incisive ... Highly recommended for all university libraries and larger public libraries.'
Choice
`An excellent book on theory and, combined with other materials, provides for a challenging and serious investigation into this topic.'
Teaching Philosophy
`For me, possibly the greatest merit of the collection is it's richness, displaying the futility of defining virtue ethics ... Roger Crisp has succeeded in his stated aim of providing a reader on virtue theory, and one which 'suggests a broad agenda for future thought'. It is an extremely worthwhile and high quality collection.'
Christine Swanton, Mind vol.100 no.423, 1997
`this volume is probably the best single introduction to what is going on in virtue ethics today ... the general quality of the contributions is high. I found it consistently interesting, sometimes absorbing, reading. Within the realm of virtue ethics, the essays cover a commendably broad range of topics.'
Lester Hunt, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ethics, April 1999