How Should One Live? - Essays on the Virtues (Paperback, New Ed)

How Should One Live? offers an authoritative survey of the remarkable recent revival of philosophical interest in the virtues. It features twelve specially commissioned pieces by a distinguished international team of authors. A broad range of topics is covered: practical virtue ethics; ancient views of the virtues; impartiality and partiality; Kant and the virtues; utilitarianism and the virtues; the virtues and human nature; natural and artificial virtues; virtue and the good life; the vices; virtue and the emotions; virtue and politics; feminism, moral education, and the virtues; and virtue and community. These essays give an ideal introduction to current work in this area.