Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Virtue Ethics, Here and Now 1
5. Part I. Historical Innovations on Foundational Issues
6. 1. Virtue Ethics: What Kind of Naturalism? 11
7. 2. Seneca's Virtuous Moral Rules 30
8. 3. Do Virtues Conflict? Aquinas's Answer 60
9. Part 2. A Reappraisal of Some Central Virtues
10. 4. Erotic Love as a Moral Virtue 81
11. 5. Aristotle on the Moral Relevance of Self-Respect 101
12. Part 3. The Nature of Virtue Reconsidered
13. 6. Negative Virtues: Zhuangzi's Wuwei 125
14. 7. Virtue Ethics and Human Development: A Pragmatic Approach 142
15. Part 4. Virtue Ethics and Its Environs
16. 8. Hume on Virtue, Utility and Morality 159
17. 9. Nietzschean Virtue Ethics 179
18. 10. The Virtues, Perfectionist Goods, and Pessimism 193
19. Notes on Contributors 211
20. Index 213