Virtue

by Chapman, John W.; Galston, William A.

• ISBN13: 9780814714843
• ISBN10: 0814714846
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-09-01
• Publisher: New York Univ Pr

Summary

In the United States, there exists increasing uneasiness about the predominance of self-interest in both public and private life, growing fear about the fragmentation and privatization of American society, mounting concerns about the effects of institutions--ranging from families to schools to the media--on the character of young people, and a renewed tendency to believe that without certain traditional virtues neither public leaders nor public policies are likely to succeed. In this thirty-fourth volume inThe American Society of Legal and Political Philosophy, a distinguished group of international scholars from a range of disciplines examines what is meant by virtue, analyzing various historical and analytical meanings of virtue, notions of liberal virtue, civic virtue, and judicial virtue, and the nature of secular and theological virtue.The contributors include: Jean Baechler (University of Paris-Sorbonne), Annette C. Baier (University of Pittsburgh), Ronald Beiner (University of Toronto), Christopher J. Berry (University of Glasgow), J. Budziszweski (University of Texas), Charles Larmore (Columbia University), David Luban (University of Maryland), Stephen Macedo (Harvard University), Michael J. Perry (Northwestern University), Terry Pinkard (Georgetown University), Jonathan Riley (Tulane University), George Sher (University of Vermont), Judith N. Shklar (Harvard University), Rogers M. Smith (Yale University), David A. Strauss (University of Chicago), and Joan C. Williams (American University).

Table of Contents

Preface
Contributors
Introduction	p. 1
Analytical and Historical Perspectives	p. 23
Virtue: Its Nature, Exigency, and Acquisition	p. 25
Religion and Civic Virtue	p. 49
Adam Smith and the Virtues of Commerce	p. 69
Epistemology of the Virtues	p. 89
Knowing about Virtue	p. 91
Virtues and Relativism	p. 117
On the Good of Knowing Virtue	p. 132
Liberalism, Neutrality, and Liberal Virtues	p. 143
The Moral Vocabulary of Liberalism	p. 145
The Limits of Aristotelian Ethics	p. 185
The Liberal Virtues	p. 197
Charting Liberal Virtues	p. 204
Judicial Virtue	p. 233
Justice Holmes and Judicial Virtue	p. 235
Judicial Virtue and Democratic Politics	p. 265
Justice without Virtue	p. 283
Some Special Virtues	p. 289
Some Virtues of Resident Alienage	p. 291
Virtue and Oppression	p. 309
Liberal Philanthropy	p. 338
Virtue: A Brief Bibliography	p. 387
Index	p. 391
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