Varieties of Virtue Ethics

Introduction Part 1: Philosophical Varieties of Virtue and Virtue Ethics Chapter 1: The Varieties of Virtue Ethics By Robert C. Roberts Chapter 2: Which variety of virtue ethics? By Julia Annas, Chapter 3: Against idealization in virtue ethics Howard Curzer Chapter 4: Virtue ethics in the medieval period By John Haldane Chapter 5: Iris Murdoch and the varieties of virtue ethics, By Konrad Banicki Chapter 6: Confucian and Daoist virtue ethics By May Sim Part 2: Virtue Ethics in the Wider Academic Context Chapter 7: Aristotelian ethical virtue: naturalism without measure By Jonathan Jacobs Chapter 8: Categorising character: moving beyond the Aristotelian framework By Christian Miller Chapter 9: Human practices and God's making-good in Aquinas' virtue ethics By Richard Conrad Chapter 10: Recovered goods: Durheimian sociology as virtue ethics By Philip Gorski Chapter 11: The deep psychology of eudaimonia and virtue: belonging, loyalty and the anteriorcingulate cortex By Blaine Fowers Chapter 12: Virtue, the common good and self-transcendence By Candace Vogler Part 3: Virtue Ethics and the Wider Professional and Educational Context Chapter 13: Plato on the Necessity of Imitation and Habituation for the Cultivation of the Virtues By Mark Jonas Chapter 14: Maintaining primary professional virtues by protecting properly oriented relationships: medical practice as a case study By Justin Oakley Chapter 15: 'Till we have faces': second-person relatedness as the object, end and crucial circumstance of perfect or 'infused' virtues By Andrew Pinsent Chapter 16: The seduction of Kierkegaard's aesthetic sphere By Kevin Gary Chapter 17: Distinguishing Post-Traumatic Growth from Psychological Adjustment among Rwandan Genocide Survivors By Laura E. R. Blackie, Eranda Jayawickreme, Nicki Hitchcott and Stephen Joseph Chapter 18: Educating for the wisdom of virtue By David Carr

James Arthur is Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Staffing and Professor of Education and Civic Engagement at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is Director of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues. Among his many works on the education of character and virtue are The Communitarian Agenda in Education (2001) and Education with Character (2003).
David Carr is Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh and currently Professor of Ethics and Education in the University of Birmingham Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, UK. He has written much on the significance of art and literature for educating moral character and recently edited a volume of essays entitled Perspectives on Gratitude: An Interdisciplinary Approach (2016). Kristján Kristjánsson is Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics, and Deputy Director of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham, UK. His research focuses on issues at the intersection of moral philosophy, moral psychology and moral education. His latest book is Aristotelian Character Education (2015).