November 20, 2009

Books

Grecian Gifts, Plus

Putting on Virtue The Legacy of the Splendid Vices Jennifer A. Herdt University of Chicago Press, $55, 454 pp.

David Fergusson

Since the mid-twentieth century, “virtue ethics” has staged a comeback among both theologians and philosophers. Reacting against the formalism of moral theory since Kant, scholars have drawn attention to the ways in which our actions are determined by habits, qualities of character, and shared conceptions about what constitutes the good life. This seems to make better sens (...)


 

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