Practical intelligence and the virtues
By: Daniel C. Russell.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199565795
Subjects: Virtue; Ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and  index.
Table of contents: title: Practical intelligence and the virtues : an aristotelian approach; title: Deliberation; title: Phronesis; title: The phronesis controversy; title: Phronesis, virtue, and right action; title: Right action for virtue ethics; title: Right action and serious practical concerns; title: Constraints on right action; title: Must virtue ethics accept the act constraint?; title: Can virtue ethics accept the act constraint?; title: Right action and virtuous motives; title: The structure of agent-based virtue ethics; title: Virtuous acts and virtuous motivations; title: Why virtues are virtues; title: Reasons for virtue; title: Right action and the virtuous person; title: Doing without the virtuous person; title: Virtuous enough; title: Ideals and aspirations; title: Virtues, persons, and the virtuous person; title: Representing the virtuous person; title: The enumeration problem; title: The enumeration problem; title: The enumeration problem : an introduction; title: Enumeration and overall virtuous actions; title: Enumeration and overall virtuous persons; title: Enumeration and naturalism; title: Individuating the virtues; title: From individuation to enumeration; title: The same reasons; title: Reasons, individuation, and cardinality; title: Implications for hard virtue ethics; title: Magnificence, generosity, and subordination; title: Magnificence as a virtue; title: Subordination, specialization, and cardinality; title: Alternatives to the subordination view; title: Situations, dispositions, and virtues; title: Situations and broad-based dispositions; title: Situationism and dispositionism; title: Situationism and personality; title: Idiographic predictions of consistency; title: Situations and dispositions : examining the evidence; title: How to test broad-based dispositions for cross-situational consistency; title: Putting dispositions to the test : four representative experiments; title: Interpreting the findings; title: From situationism to virtue theory; title: Situationism : from empirical to philosophical psychology; title: Situationism and virtue theory : normative adequacy; title: From common sense to virtue theory?; title: Out-sourcing the empirical work?; title: A cognitive-affective approach to the virtues; title: Defending hard virtue theory; title: Phronesis and the unity of the virtues; title: The unity of which virtues?; title: Attributive and model theses; title: Responsibility for character; title: Depth, self-construction, and responsibility; title: On responsibility and ultimate responsibility for character; title: What is critical distance?; title: From critical distance to responsibility; title: Objections to the critical distance view.