Virtues in action: new essays in applied virtue ethics

Notes on Contributors Introduction PART I: PROFESSIONAL VIRTUE 1. Virtue-Centered Approaches to Education: Prospects and Pitfalls Gregory Bassham 2. The Virtues of Honorable Business Executives Dan Demetriou 3. Sport as a Moral Practice: An Aristotelian Approach Michael W. Austin PART II: SOCIAL VIRTUE 4. Sex, Temperance, and Virtue Stan van Hooft 5. Extend Your Benevolence: Kindness and Generosity in the Family and Beyond Heidi Giebel 6. A Virtue Ethical Case for Pacifism Franco V. Trivigno 7. Some Critical Reflections on Abortion and Virtue Theory Matthew Flannagan PART III: ENVIRONMENTAL VIRTUE 8. Environmental Degradation, Environmental Justice, and the Compassionate Agent Chris Frakes 9. Humility and Environmental Virtue Ethics Matthew Pianalto PART IV: INTELLECTUAL VIRTUE 10. Hope as an Intellectual Virtue Nancy E. Snow 11. Virtue Ethics and Moral Failure: Lessons from Neuroscientific Moral Psychology Lisa Tessman 12. Getting Our Minds Out of the Gutter: Fallacies that Foul Our Discourse (and Virtues that Clean it Up) Robert K. Garcia and Nathan L. King Bibliography Index