Author: David AersPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Imagining the Virtues
Author: David AersVirtues of the Mind
Author: Linda Trinkaus ZagzebskiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521578264
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This remarkable book is the first attempt to establish a theory of knowledge based on the model of virtue theory in ethics.
Tending the Heart of Virtue
Author: Vigen GuroianPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019538430X
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
From Pinocchio to The Chronicles of Narnia to Charlotte's Web, classic children's tales have shaped generations of young people. In recent years, homeschoolers and new classical schools have put these masterpieces of children's literature at the center of their curricula. And these stories continue to be embraced by parents, students, and educators alike. In Tending the Heart of Virtue, Vigen Guroian illuminates the power of classic tales and their impact on the moral imagination. He demonstrates how these stories teach the virtues through vivid depictions of the struggle between good and evil, while he also unveils components of the good, the true, and the beautiful in plot and character. With clarity and elegance, Guroian reads deeply into the classic stories. He demonstrates how these stories challenge and enliven the moral imaginations of children. And he shows the reader how to get "inside" of classic stories and communicate their lessons to the child. For more than two decades Tending the Heart of Virtue has been embraced by parents, guardians, and teachers for whom the stories it discusses are not only beloved classics but repositories of moral wisdom. This new revised edition includes three new chapters and an expanded annotated bibliography in which Guroian interprets such stories as Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling, the Grimms' Cinderella, and John Ruskin's The King of the Golden River.
From Natural Character to Moral Virtue in Aristotle
Author: Mariska LeunissenPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019060221X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
This book discusses Aristotle's biological views about 'natural character traits' and their importance for moral development. It provides a new, comprehensive account of the physiological underpinnings of moral development and shows that the biological account of natural character provides the conceptual and ideological foundation for Aristotle's ethical views about habituation.
The Book of Virtues
Author: William J. BennettPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439126259
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1917
Book Description
Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and wrong. And the best places to find them are in great works of literature and exemplary stories from history. William J. Bennett has collected hundreds of stories in The Book of Virtues, an instructive and inspiring anthology that will help children understand and develop character -- and help adults teach them. From the Bible to American history, from Greek mythology to English poetry, from fairy tales to modern fiction, these stories are a rich mine of moral literacy, a reliable moral reference point that will help anchor our children and ourselves in our culture, our history, and our traditions -- the sources of the ideals by which we wish to live our lives. Complete with instructive introductions and notes, The Book of Virtues is a book the whole family can read and enjoy -- and learn from -- together.
Reclaiming Virtue
Author: John BradshawPublisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553095927
Category : Integrity
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
The best-selling author of Creating Love sets out to redefine what it means to live a moral life in today's world by helping readers reclaim and cultivate their inborn moral intelligence by developing one's instincts for goodness in childhood and nurturing them through one's adult life to promote good character and moral responsibility.
Tending the Heart of Virtue
Author: Vigen GuroianPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195152646
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
This study illuminates the complex ways in which fairy tales and fantasies educate the moral imagination from earliest childhood. It argues that these tales capture the meaning of morality through the struggle between good and evil.
The Virtues of the Table
Author: Julian BagginiPublisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1847087167
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
How we eat, farm and shop for food is not only a matter of taste. Our choices regarding what we eat involve every essential aspect of our human nature: the animal, the sensuous, the social, the cultural, the creative, the emotional and the intellectual. Thinking seriously about food requires us to consider our relationship to nature, to our fellow animals, to each other and to ourselves. So can thinking about food teach us about being virtuous, and can what we eat help us to decide how to live? From the author of The Ego Trick and The Pig that Wants to be Eaten comes a thought-provoking exploration of our values and vices. What can fasting teach us about autonomy? Should we, like Kant, 'dare to know' cheese? Should we take media advice on salt with a pinch of salt? And can food be more virtuous, more inherently good, than art?
The Inquiring Mind
Author: Jason BaehrPublisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 019960407X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Jason Baehr presents a new theory of 'responsibilist' or character-based virtue-epistemology -- an approach in which intellectual character traits are given a central and fundamental role. He examines the nature and structure of an intellectual virtue and accounts for the role of reflection on intellectual virtues in epistemology.
After Virtue
Author: Alasdair MacIntyrePublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1623569818
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he traced back to a European Enlightenment that had made the formulation of moral principles increasingly difficult. In the search for a way out of this impasse, MacIntyre returns to an earlier strand of ethical thinking, that of Aristotle, who emphasised the importance of 'virtue' to the ethical life. More than thirty years after its original publication, After Virtue remains a work that is impossible to ignore for anyone interested in our understanding of ethics and morality today.
