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Indispensible for any serious student of virtue ethics., Aug 30 2009
By Joseph A. Harder "coffee drinking papist" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Revisions, Changing Perspectives in Moral Philosophy (Paperback)
Few thinkers have done more to foster the contemporary revival of virtue ethics than Stanley Hauerwas and Alasdair Macintyre.This remarkable anthology,which was first published by Notre Dame in 1983 and which has never been out of print, is not so much an anthology of virtue ethics as a collection of remarkable essays, many of them little known, on Moral philosophy, aesthetics and moral theology. These essays are not designed to advance a single school or program, as to suggest new and fruitful lines of inquiry for both moral philosophers and moral theologians. Among the fine contributions to this anthology are Peter Berger's" The Obsolescence of the Concept of Honor", Annette Baier's " Secular Faith", Simone Weil's " The lliad , or The Poem of Force.",and Herbert Fingarette's " The Meaning of Law in the Book of Job." All of that only scatches the surface. This is an incredibly rich, stimulating, intellectual feast.