Aristoterlian scholarship, whether theoretical or applied, orthodox or self-styled, is a gigantic jigsaw puzzlw with some of the biggest pieces missing: all the books form Aristotle'soriginal corpus that are lost...The book under review here rearranges some of the exsistent Aristotelian pieces and relates them handily to other puzzles of present concernes. In default of the Aristotelian Indiana Jones, this surely counts as progress.

• Introduction ; 1. Modern virtue ethics ; 2. The admirable life and the desirable life ; 3. Virtue and rights in Aristotle's best regime ; 4. The virtues and vices of virtue jurisprudence ; 5. Habituation as mimesis ; 6. Moral incompetence ; 7. The variety of life and the unity of practical wisdom ; 8. Moral sense and virtue in Hume's ethics ; 9. Can Nietzsche be both a virtue ethicist and an existentialist? ; 10. Manners, morals, and practical wisdom ; 11. The hardboiled detective as moralist ; 12. 'Like the Bloom on Youths': How pleasure completes our lives ; 13. Mixed determinates: pleasure, good, and truth ; 14. Three dogmas of desire

Aristoterlian scholarship, whether theoretical or applied, orthodox or self-styled, is a gigantic jigsaw puzzlw with some of the biggest pieces missing: all the books form Aristotle'soriginal corpus that are lost...The book under review here rearranges some of the exsistent Aristotelian pieces and relates them handily to other puzzles of present concernes. In default of the Aristotelian Indiana Jones, this surely counts as progress.

• Introduction ; 1. Modern virtue ethics ; 2. The admirable life and the desirable life ; 3. Virtue and rights in Aristotle's best regime ; 4. The virtues and vices of virtue jurisprudence ; 5. Habituation as mimesis ; 6. Moral incompetence ; 7. The variety of life and the unity of practical wisdom ; 8. Moral sense and virtue in Hume's ethics ; 9. Can Nietzsche be both a virtue ethicist and an existentialist? ; 10. Manners, morals, and practical wisdom ; 11. The hardboiled detective as moralist ; 12. 'Like the Bloom on Youths': How pleasure completes our lives ; 13. Mixed determinates: pleasure, good, and truth ; 14. Three dogmas of desire

Aristoterlian scholarship, whether theoretical or applied, orthodox or self-styled, is a gigantic jigsaw puzzlw with some of the biggest pieces missing: all the books form Aristotle'soriginal corpus that are lost...The book under review here rearranges some of the exsistent Aristotelian pieces and relates them handily to other puzzles of present concernes. In default of the Aristotelian Indiana Jones, this surely counts as progress.

• Introduction ; 1. Modern virtue ethics ; 2. The admirable life and the desirable life ; 3. Virtue and rights in Aristotle's best regime ; 4. The virtues and vices of virtue jurisprudence ; 5. Habituation as mimesis ; 6. Moral incompetence ; 7. The variety of life and the unity of practical wisdom ; 8. Moral sense and virtue in Hume's ethics ; 9. Can Nietzsche be both a virtue ethicist and an existentialist? ; 10. Manners, morals, and practical wisdom ; 11. The hardboiled detective as moralist ; 12. 'Like the Bloom on Youths': How pleasure completes our lives ; 13. Mixed determinates: pleasure, good, and truth ; 14. Three dogmas of desire