Screen LibraryThe Fabric of character : Aristotle's theory of virtue /
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Clarendon Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: | 2003. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: |
http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=9b81e72d8f5f47d9a9bf567b6d20f4ec |
| Item Description: |
"Clarendon paperbacks."--cover. Based on the author's Ph. D. thesis (Harvard University, 1982). |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xiv, 213 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9780191519758 9780198239178 |
| CLC: | B502.233 |
| Contents: |
Introduction -- Character -- The inseparability of character and practical reason -- A practical theory -- Discerning the particulars -- Equity within the law -- An alternative legislative model -- Perceiving ethical salience -- Seeing through emotions -- Strategies for expanding horizons -- The choices of a character -- Present and future intention -- The practical syllogism -- Simple planning -- The more complex plans of a character -- Choice includes revision of ends -- Fitting contemplation in a life -- Good and bad characters -- The shared life -- Aristotle and Kant -- Friends as external goods -- Happiness as including the happiness of others -- Friendship and wider altruism -- A friend as another but separate self -- Conditions for attachment -- Virtuous parents and virtuous children (or sons) -- The limitations of private education -- The viability of a developmental model -- The rationality of the non-rational part -- The inappropriateness of harsh sanctions -- The intentionality of emotions -- Learning to see aright -- Learning to make choices -- Habituation as critical practice -- The pleasure intrinsic to practice -- Practice includes experience. |