Virtues and Their Vices

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Virtues and Their Vices
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 522
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ISBN-10 : 9780199645541
ISBN-13 : 019964554X
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Book Synopsis Virtues and Their Vices by : Kevin Timpe

Book excerpt: A comprehensive philosophical treatment of the virtues and their competing vices. The first four sections focus on historical classes of virtue: the cardinal virtues, the capital vices and the corrective virtues, intellectual virtues, and the theological virtues. A final section discusses the role of virtue theory in a number of disciplines.


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