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2 - Views of Virtue in Philosophy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2020

Arthur Jan Keefer
Arthur Jan Keefer
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Eton College
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Chapter 2 covers the key figures in the history of virtue ethics, including Socrates, Aristotle, Aquinas, and Alasdair MacIntyre. For each figure, several conceptions integral to moral philosophy are examined, such as the definition of virtue, its source and cultivation, anthropology, the human problem, and theology. This chapter consequently provides an introduction to virtue ethics, one tailored to my purposes, and may be dispensable for readers fluent in the subject. Nevertheless, debates and questions are raised here that shape the rest of the study, contributing to the bank of philosophical resources necessary for establishing the book of Proverbs as a moral tradition, and for that reason are indispensable to its argument.

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SocratesAristotleAquinasMacIntyredefinition of virtuesources of virtuecultivation of virtueanthropologyhuman problemtheology
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The Book of Proverbs and Virtue Ethics
Integrating the Biblical and Philosophical Traditions
 , pp. 14 - 41
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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