Virtue Ethics

Nafsika Athanassoulis is an independent researcher and has previously taught at Keele University and the University of Leeds, UK. She is the author of Morality, Moral Responsibility and Moral Luck (Palgrave, 2005), editor of Philosophical Reflections on Medical Ethics (Palgrave, 2010) and, with Samantha Vice, editor of The Moral Life: essays in honour of John Cottingham (Palgrave, 2008).

[T]he tone in which [this book] is written and the wavelength Athanassoulis has chosen on which to broadcast her ideas, elevates the value of this work above what can usually be expected from an introductory text of impeccable quality … [B]ased on the quality of this book, I would expect similarly excellent levels of reflection in any [future] research as displayed in Virtue Ethics, which will be of undeniable intellectual benefit to those who read it with the care and attention it deserves.

• Acknowledgements \ Abbreviations, Sources and Translations \ Introduction \ Part I: Virtue Ethics as New Alternative \ 1. Virtue Ethics, A Revived Alternative \ 2. Ethics and Morality \ 3. Character and the Emotions \ Conclusion for Part I \ Part II: Virtue Ethics Comes of Age \ 4. Virtue; An Aristotelian Definition I \ 5. Virtue; An Aristotelian Definition II \ 6. A Naturalistic Account of Virtue \ Conclusion for Part II \ Part III: Current Developments in Virtue Ethics \ 7. The Challenge from Personality Psychology \ 8. Moral Education and the Virtues \ 9. The Kantian Response \ Conclusion for Part III \ Conclusion \ Notes \ Bibliography \ Index