It is a compelling addition to the philosophical treatment of the virtues as well as their import in a wide spectrum of disciplines. Virtues and their Vices is unique for the way it engages contemporary philosophical scholarship as well as relevant scholarship from related disciplines throughout. However, it is not only focused on those historical and theological issues. The treatment of the virtues in this present volume is sensitive to the historical heritage of the virtues, including their theological heritage, drawing on, e.g.
The final section discusses the role virtue theory and the virtues themselves play in a number of cognate disciplines, ranging from theology and political theory to neurobiology and feminism. Each of the first four sections focuses on a particular historically important class of virtues: the cardinal virtues, the capital vices (or ‘seven deadly sins’) and the corrective virtues, intellectual virtues, and the theological virtues. Each of the essays not only locates discussion of that virtue in its historical context, but also advances the discussion and debate concerning the understanding and role of the virtues. An individual becomes truthful by acting truthfully, or becomes unselfish b. He says that moral virtues are not innate, but that they are acquired by developing the habit of exercising them. Virtues and their Vices is the only extant contemporary, comprehensive treatment of specific virtues and, where applicable, their competing vices. Answer (1 of 4): Aristotle distinguishes between two kinds of virtue: moral virtue and intellectual virtue. With regard to the whether the intellectual virtues are 'natural' (given by nature), Aristotle does say that. For us there are four cardinal moral virtues: courage, temperance, wisdom and justice. See second section below for Giers most recent summary of the intellectual virtues 'Phronesis has no authority over sophia or the better part of our soul' (1145a8-9) but sophia 'will study none of the things that make a man happy' (1143b119). Each of the first four sections focuses on a particular historically important class of virtues: the cardinal virtues, the capital vices (or ‘seven deadly sins’) and the corrective virtues, intellectual virtues, and the theological virtues. Phillippa Foot Chapter 1 Virtues and Vices I.
This is the heart of the doctrine of virtue, both moral and intellectual.
Virtues and their Vices is the only extant contemporary, comprehensive treatment of specific virtues and, where applicable, their competing vices. Aristotle specifically mentions the life of gratification (pleasure, comfort.
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