"The Handbook of Virtue Ethics" brings together leading international scholars to provide an overview of the field, maps the emergence of virtue ethics and provides a framework for future developments.
Cosmopolitanism urges us to embrace the whole world into our moral concerns and to apply the standards of impartiality and equity across boundaries of... Læs mere
Virtue ethics which focuses upon the character of moral agents more than on the moral status of their actions or the consequences of those actions, has become an important... Læs mere
For Aristotle being hopeful was part of a well-lived life, a virtue. For Aquinas it was a fundamentally theological virtue and for Kant a basic moral motivation. Drawing on everyday examples as... Læs mere
Presenting a philosophical exploration of the ideas central to health care practice this book explores such concepts as caring, health, disease, suffering and pain from a phenomenological perspective.