This book develops a conception of student flourishing as the overarching aim of education.
Taking as its basis the Aristotelian concept of eudaimonia, it provides a theoretical study of …

Aristotle is the father of virtue ethics—a discipline which is receiving renewed scholarly
attention. Yet Aristotle's accounts of the individual virtues remain opaque, for most …

Uncovering Aristotle's motivations and basic views while paying careful attention to his
arguments, this introduction to the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle's great masterpiece of …

Many people are drawn towards virtue ethics because of the central place it gives to
emotions in the good life. Yet it may seem odd to evaluate emotions as virtuous or non …

At a time when respect is widely touted as an attitude of central moral importance, contempt
is often derided as a thoroughly nasty emotion inimical to the respect we owe all persons …

Gabriel Richardson Lear presents a bold new approach to one of the enduring debates
about Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: the controversy about whether it coherently argues …

The two central emotions of pride and jealousy have long been held to have no role in moral
judgements, and have been a source of controversy in both ethics and moral psychology …

Positive psychology has significantly influenced studies in the fields of moral philosophy,
psychology and education, and scholars in those fields have attempted to apply its ideas …

This paper applies emerging research on epistemic virtues to business ethics. Inspired by
recent work on epistemic virtues in philosophy, I develop a view in which epistemic virtues …

One of the most striking and controversial features of Aristotle's moral exemplar, the
megalopsychos, is his tendency to be contemptuous. Not surprisingly, modern scholarship …