Virtues and Their Vices

Virtues and Their Vices is the only extant contemporary, comprehensive treatment of specific virtues and, where applicable, their competing vices. Each of the essays, written exclusively for this volume, not only locates discussion of that virtue in its historical context, but also advances the discussion and debate concerning the understanding and role of the virtues. Each of the first four sections focuses on a particular, historically important class of virtues: the cardinal virtues, the capital vices (or 'seven deadly sins') and the corrective virtues, intellectual virtues, and the theological virtues. The final section discusses the role virtue theory and the virtues themselves play in a number of disciplines, ranging from theology and political theory to neurobiology and feminism. The treatment of the virtues in this present volume is sensitive to the historical heritage of the virtues, including their theological heritage, without paying undue attention to the historical and theological issues. Virtues and Their Vices engages contemporary philosophical scholarship as well as relevant scholarship from related disciplines throughout. It is a unique and compelling addition to the philosophical treatment of the virtues as well as their import in a wide spectrum of disciplines.

Dr. Kevin Timpe is professor of philosophy at Northwest Nazarene University, having previously been a research fellow at St. Peter's College, Oxford University. His research focuses primarily on the metaphysics of free will and moral responsibility, and issues in the philosophy of religion. He is the author of Free Will: Sourcehood and its Alternatives, 2e and the editor of Arguing about Religion and Metaphysics and God. Dr. Craig A. Boyd is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy and Liaison for Philosophy and Theological Studies at St. Louis University. He has published two books: A Shared Morality: A Narrative Defense of Natural Law Ethics and Visions of Agapé: Problems and Possibilities in Divine and Human Love.

- Introduction - I: The Cardinal Virtues - 1: Jay Wood: Prudence - 2: David Schmidtz and John Thrasher: The Virtues of Justice - 3: Daniel McInerny: Fortitude and the Conflict of Frameworks - 4: Robert C. Roberts: Temperance - II: The Capital Vices and Corrective Virtues - 5: Colleen McCluskey: Lust and Chastity - 6: Robert B. Kruschwitz: Gluttony and Abstinence - 7: Andrew Pinsent: Avarice and Liberality - 8: Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung: Sloth: Some Historical Reflections on Laziness, Effort, and Resistance to the Demands of Love - 9: Zac Cogley: A Study in Virtuous and Vicious Anger - 10: Timothy Perrine and Kevin Timpe: Envy and Its Discontents - 11: Craig A. Boyd: Pride and Humility: Tempering the Desire for Excellence - III: Intellectual Virtues - 12: Linda Zagzebski: Trust - 13: John Greco: Episteme: Knowledge and Understanding - 14: Jason Baehr: Sophia: Theoretical Wisdom and Contemporary Epistemology, - IV: The Theological Virtues - 15: Robert Audi: Faith as Attitude, Trait, and Virtue - 16: Charles Pinches: On Hope - 17: Paul J. Wadell: Charity: How Friendship with God Unfolds in Love for Others - V: Virtue Across the Disciplines - 18: Stephen Pope: Virtue in Theology - 19: Christie Hartley and Lori Watson: Virtue in Political Thought: On Civic Virtue and Political Liberalism - 20: Everett L. Worthington, Jr., Caroline Lavelock, Daryl R. Van Tongeren, David J. Jennings, II, Aubrey L. Gartner, Don E. Davis, and Joshua N. Hook: Virtue in Positive Psychology - 21: James A. Van Slyke: Moral Psychology, Neuroscience, and Virtue: From Moral Judgment to Moral Character - 22: Ruth Groenhout: Virtue and A Feminist Ethics of Care