Introduction
Part 1: Philosophical Varieties of Virtue and Virtue Ethics
Chapter 1: The Varieties of Virtue Ethics
By Robert C. Roberts
Chapter 2: Which variety of virtue ethics?
By Julia Annas,
Chapter 3: Against idealization in virtue ethics
Howard Curzer
Chapter 4: Virtue ethics in the medieval period
By John Haldane
Chapter 5: Iris Murdoch and the varieties of virtue ethics, By Konrad Banicki
Chapter 6: Confucian and Daoist virtue ethics
By May Sim
Part 2: Virtue Ethics in the Wider Academic Context
Chapter 7: Aristotelian ethical virtue: naturalism without measure
By Jonathan Jacobs
Chapter 8: Categorising character: moving beyond the Aristotelian framework
By Christian Miller
Chapter 9: Human practices and God's making-good in Aquinas' virtue ethics
By Richard Conrad
Chapter 1
0: Recovered goods: Durheimian sociology as virtue ethics
By Philip Gorski
Chapter 11: The deep psychology of eudaimonia and virtue: belonging, loyalty and the anterior cingulate cortex
By Blaine Fowers
Chapter 12: Virtue, the common good and self-transcendence
By Candace Vogler
Part 3: Virtue Ethics and the Wider Professional and Educational Context
Chapter 13: Plato on the Necessity of Imitation and Habituation for the Cultivation of the Virtues
By Mark Jonas
Chapter 14: Maintaining primary professional virtues by protecting properly oriented relationships: medical practice as a case study
By Justin Oakley
Chapter 15: 'Till we have faces': second-person relatedness as the object, end and crucial circumstance of perfect or 'infused' virtues
By Andrew Pinsent
Chapter 16: The seduction of Kierkegaard's aesthetic sphere
By Kevin Gary
Chapter 17: Distinguishing
Post-Traumatic Growth from Psychological Adjustment among Rwandan Genocide Survivors
By Laura E. R. Blackie, Eranda Jayawickreme, Nicki Hitchcott and Stephen Joseph
Chapter 18: Educating for the wisdom of virtue
By David Carr
James Arthur is Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Staffing and Professor of Education and Civic Engagement at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is Director of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues. Among his many works on the education of character and virtue are The Communitarian Agenda in Education (2001) and Education with Character (2003).
David Carr is Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh and currently Professor of Ethics and Education in the University of Birmingham Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, UK. He has written much on the significance of art and literature for educating moral character and recently edited a volume of essays entitled Perspectives on Gratitude: An Interdisciplinary Approach (2016).
Kristján Kristjánsson is Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics, and Deputy Director of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham, UK. His research focuses on issu
es at the intersection of moral philosophy, moral psychology and moral education. His latest book is
Aristotelian Character Education (2015).
