Research Catalog

Title

The Fabric of character : Aristotle's theory of virtue / Nancy Sherman.

Author

Sherman, Nancy, 1951-

Publication

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, [1991], ©1989.

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Details

Description

xiv, 213 pages; 22 cm

Alternative Title

Aristotle's theory of virtue

Subject

• Aristotle > Ethics
• Aristotle
• Aristote, (0384-0322 av. j.-c.) > Morale
• Nicomachean ethics (Aristotle)
• Virtue > History
• Character > History
• Vertus > Histoire
• Caractère > Histoire
• Ethics
• Character
• Virtue
• Ethiek
• Deugden
• Persoonlijkheid

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "Clarendon paperbacks."
• "First issued in paperback 1991."
• Based on the author's Ph. D. thesis (Harvard University, 1982).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available on the Internet to subscribing institutions.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction -- Character -- The inseparability of character and practical reason -- A practical theory -- 2. Discerning the particulars -- Equity within the law -- An alternative legislative model -- Perceiving ethical salience -- Seeing through emotions -- Strategies for expanding horizons -- 3. The choices of a character -- Present and future intention -- The practical syllogism -- Simple planning -- The more complex plans of a character -- Choice includes revision of ends -- Fitting contemplation in a life -- Good and bad characters -- 4. The shared life -- Aristotle and Kant -- Friends as external goods -- Happiness as including the happiness of others -- Friendship and wider altruism -- A friend as another but separate self -- Conditions for attachment -- Virtuous parents and virtuous children (or sons) -- The limitations of private education -- 5. The viability of a developmental model -- The rationality of the non-rational part -- The inappropriateness of harsh sanctions -- The intentionality of emotions -- Learning to see aright -- Learning to make choices -- Habituation as critical practice -- The pleasure intrinsic to practice -- Practice includes experience.

ISBN

• 0198239173
• 9780198239178

OCLC

• 25487492
• SCSB-10800703

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library