Virtue Ethics

Tom Angier is based in the Philosophy Department at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

VOLUME I: ANCIENT VIRTUE ETHICS

Introduction - Tom Angier

Part 1: Homer






Alasdair MacIntyre, ‘The virtues in heroic societies’, in After Virtue (London: Duckworth 1981), pp.121-131.
Part 2: Plato




Gregory Vlastos, ‘Happiness and virtue in Socrates’ moral theory’, Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 1984, 30, pp. 181-213.



Jonathan Lear, ‘Inside and outside the Republic’, Phronesis 1992, XXXVII (2), pp. 184-215.



John M. Cooper, ‘The unity of virtue’, Social Philosophy and Policy 1998, 15 (1), pp. 233-74.



Richard D. Parry, ‘Platonic virtue ethics and the end of virtue’, History of Philosophy Quarterly 2002, 19 (3), pp. 239-54.



Rachel Barney, ‘Plato on the desire for the good’, in Sergio Tenenbaum (ed.), Desire, Practical Reason, and the Good (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2010), pp. 34-64.
Part 3: Aristotle




Christine Korsgaard, ‘Aristotle on function and virtue’, History of Philosophy Quarterly 1986, 3, pp. 259-79.



Elizabeth Telfer, ‘The unity of the moral virtues in Aristotle’s "Nicomachean Ethics"’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (New Series) 1989-1990, 90, pp. 35-48.



Howard J. Curzer, ‘Aristotle’s account of the virtue of justice’, Apeiron 1995, 28 (3), pp. 207-38.



Julia Annas, ‘Aristotle’s Politics – a symposium: Aristotle on human nature and political virtue’, The Review of Metaphysics 1996, 49 (4), pp. 731-53.



Stephen Buckle, ‘Aristotle’s Republic, or why Aristotle’s Ethics is not virtue ethics’, Philosophy 2002, 77 (302), pp. 565-95.



Gabriel Richardson Lear, ‘Two happy lives and their most final ends’, in (selection) of Happy Lives and the Highest Good: An Essay on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2004), pp. 175-88.



Tom P. S. Angier, ‘Mesotēs: Aristotle’s ethical mean’, in Technē in Aristotle’s Ethics: Crafting the Moral Life (London: Continuum International Publishing Group 2010), pp. 79-104.


Part 4: Stoicism




Terence H. Irwin, ‘Virtue, praise and success: Stoic responses to Aristotle’, The Monist 1990, 70 (1), pp. 59-79.



Anthony A. Long, ‘The harmonics of Stoic virtue’, in Stoic Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1996), pp. 202-23.




VOLUME II: RELIGIOUS VIRTUE ETHICS

Introduction - Tom Angier

Part 5: Confucianism and Buddhism




Jiyuan Yu, ‘The "manifesto" of New-Confucianism and the revival of virtue ethics’, Frontiers of Philosophy in China 2008, 3 (3), pp. 317-34.



Edward Slingerland, ‘The situationist critique and early Confucian virtue ethics’, Ethics 2011, 121, pp. 390-419.



Michael Slote, ‘Virtue’s turn and return’, Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 2015, 14 (3), pp. 319-24.



Bradford Cokelet, ‘Confucianism, Buddhism, and virtue ethics’, European Journal for the Philosophy of Religion 2016, 8 (1), pp. 187-214.
Part 6: Judaism




Yitzchak Blau, ‘The implications of a Jewish virtue ethic’, The Torah u-Madda Journal 2000, 9, pp. 19-41.



Dov Nelkin, ‘"A threefold cord is not quickly broken": virtue, law, and ethics in the Talmud’, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 2003, 23 (2), pp. 119-53.



Jonathan Jacobs, ‘Aristotle and Maimonides on virtue and natural law’, Hebraic Political Studies 2007, 2 (1), 46-77.



Geoffrey Claussen, ‘A Jewish perspective on war, scripture, and moral accounting’, The Journal of Scriptural Reasoning 2015, 14 (1), pp. 1-15.
Part 7: Christianity




Robert Merrihew Adams, ‘The virtue of faith’, Faith and Philosophy 1984, 1 (1), pp. 3-15.



Jean Porter, ‘The subversion of virtue: acquired and infused virtues in the "Summa theologiae"’, The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics 1992, 12, pp. 19-41.



Stanley Hauerwas, ‘A retrospective assessment of an "Ethics of Character": the development of Hauerwas’ theological project’, in John Berkman and Michael Cartwright (eds), The Hauerwas Reader (Durham, NC: Duke University Press 2001), pp. 75-89.



Jennifer A. Herdt, ‘Virtue's semblance: Erasmus and Luther on pagan virtue and the Christian life’, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 2005, 25 (2), pp. 137-62.



Bonnie Kent, ‘Dispositions and moral fallibility: the un-Aristotelian Aquinas’, History of Philosophy Quarterly 2012, 29 (2), pp. 141-57.



David Cloutier and William Mattison III, ‘The resurgence of virtue in recent moral theology’, Journal of Moral Theology 2014, 3 (1), pp. 228–59.



Christian Tornau, ‘Happiness in this life? Augustine on the principle that virtue Is self-sufficient for happiness’, in Øyvind Rabbås et al. (eds), The Quest for the Good Life: Ancient Philosophers on Happiness (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2015), pp. 265-80.
Part 8: Islam




Mohamed A. Sherif, excerpts from Ghazali’s Theory of Virtue (Albany: State University of New York Press 1975), pp. 24-40, 77-86, 105-15, 156-9.




VOLUME III: MODERN VIRTUE ETHICS

Introduction - Tom Angier

Part 9: Hume and Nietzsche




Christine Swanton, ‘Outline of a Nietzschean virtue ethics’, International Studies in Philosophy 1998, 30 (3), pp. 29-38.



Annette C. Baier, ‘Demoralisation, trust, and the virtues’, in Reflections on how we live (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009), pp. 173-88.



Philip A. Reed, ‘What’s wrong with monkish virtues? Hume on the standard of virtue’, History of Philosophy Quarterly 2012, 29 (1), pp. 39-56.
Part 10: The twentieth-century revival




Elizabeth Anscombe, ‘Modern moral philosophy’, Philosophy 1958, 33 (124), pp. 1-19.



Philippa Foot, ‘Virtues and vices’, in Virtues and Vices (Berkeley: University of California Press 1978), pp. 1-18.



John McDowell, ‘Virtue and reason’, The Monist 1979, 62 (3), pp. 331-50.



Alasdair MacIntyre, ‘The nature of the virtues’, in After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory (London: Duckworth 1981), pp. 181-203.



Gregory Trianosky, ‘What is virtue ethics all about?’, American Philosophical Quarterly 1990, 27 (4), pp. 335-44.
Part 11: Modern virtue ethics develops




Michael Slote, ‘Agent-based virtue ethics’, Midwest Studies in Philosophy 1995, XX (1), pp. 83-101.



Rosalind Hursthouse, ‘Right action’, in On Virtue Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1999), pp. 25-42.



Christine Swanton, ‘A virtue ethical account of right action’, Ethics 2001, 112 (1), pp. 32-52.



Robert Merrihew Adams, ‘Introduction’, in A Theory of Virtue: Excellence in Being for the Good (Oxford: Clarendon Press 2006), pp. 3-13.



Linda Zagzebski, ‘Exemplarist virtue theory’, Metaphilosophy 2010, 41 (1/2), pp. 41-57.



Julia Annas, ‘Skilled and virtuous action’, in Intelligent Virtue (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2011), pp. 16-51.
Part 12: Criticisms and defences




Thomas Hurka, ‘How great a good is virtue?’, The Journal of Philosophy 1998, 95 (4), pp. 181-203.



Gilbert Harman, ‘Moral philosophy meets moral psychology: virtue ethics and the fundamental attribution error’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 1999, 99, pp. 315-31.



Brad Hooker, ‘The collapse of virtue ethics’, Utilitas 2002, 14 (1), pp. 22-40.



Rosalind Hursthouse, ‘Virtue ethics vs. rule-consequentialism: a reply to Brad Hooker’, Utilitas 2002, 14 (1), pp. 41-53.



Simon Keller, ‘Virtue ethics is self-effacing’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 2007, 85 (2), pp. 221-31.



Glen Pettigrove, ‘Is virtue ethics self-effacing?’, The Journal of Ethics 2011, 15 (3), pp. 191-207.



Frans Svensson, ‘Eudaimonist virtue ethics and right action: a reassessment’, The Journal of Ethics 2011, 15 (4), pp. 321-39.



Roger Crisp, ‘A third method of ethics?’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 2015, 90 (2), pp. 257-73.


VOLUME IV: APPLIED VIRTUE ETHICS

Introduction - Tom Angier

Part 13: Feminist ethics




Annette C. Baier, ‘What do women want in a moral theory?’, Noûs 1985, 19 (1), pp. 53-63.



Susan Moller Okin, ‘Feminism, moral development and the virtues’, in Roger Crisp (ed.), How Should One Live?: Essays on the Virtues (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1996), pp. 211-30.



Lisa Tessman, ‘Reply to critics’, Hypatia 2008, 23 (3), pp. 205-16.
Part 14: Bioethics




Rosalind Hursthouse, ‘Virtue theory and abortion’, Philosophy and Public Affairs 1991, 20 (3), pp. 223-46.



Edmund D. Pellegrino, ‘Toward a virtue-based normative ethics for the health professions’, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 1995, 5 (3), pp. 253-77.



Liezl van Zyl, ‘Euthanasia, virtue ethics and the law’, New Zealand Bioethics Journal 2002, 3 (1), pp. 18-27.



Jennifer Radden and John Z. Sadler, ‘Psychiatric ethics as virtue ethics’, in of The Virtuous Psychiatrist: Character Ethics in Psychiatric Practice (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2010), pp. 61-84.



Stephen Holland, ‘The virtue ethics approach to bioethics’, Bioethics 2011, 25 (4), pp. 192-201.
Part 15: Business ethics




Edwin M. Hartman, ‘The role of character in business ethics’,
Business Ethics Quarterly 1998, 8 (3), pp. 547–59.



J. Thomas Whetstone, ‘How virtue fits within business ethics’, Journal of Business Ethics 2001, 33 (2), pp. 101-14.



Robert C. Solomon, ‘Victims of circumstances? A defence of virtue ethics in business’, Business Ethics Quarterly 2003, 13 (1), pp. 43-62.



Ron Beadle and Geoff Moore, ‘MacIntyre on virtue and organization’, Organization Studies 2006, 27 (3), pp. 323-40.



David McPherson, ‘Vocational virtue ethics: prospects for a virtue ethic approach to business’, Journal of Business Ethics 2013, 116 (2), pp. 283-96.



Daryl Koehn, ‘East meets west: toward a universal ethic of virtue for global business’, Journal of Business Ethics 2013, 116 (4), pp. 703-15.
Part 16: Environmental ethics




Thomas E. Hill Jr, ‘Ideals of human excellence and preserving natural environments’, Environmental Ethics 1983, 5 (3), pp. 211-24.



Philip Cafaro, ‘Thoreau, Leopold and Carson: toward an environmental virtue ethics’, Environmental Ethics 2001, 23 (1), pp. 3-17.



Ronald Sandler, ‘Towards an adequate environmental virtue ethic’, Environmental Values 2004, 13 (4), pp. 477-95.



Rosalind Hursthouse, ‘Environmental virtue ethics’, in Rebecca L. Walker and Philip J. Ivanhoe (eds), Working Virtue: Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007), pp. 155-72.

Index