...David O. Brink MAKING A NECESSITY OF VIRTUE: ARISTOTLE AND KANT ON VIRTUE. By Nancy Sherman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 387. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REVLEWS because expressions of virtue must be voluntary (107), and Aristotle says that common use results...

...Chris Bobonich Brink David O. Meyer Susan Sauvé Shields Christopher , eds., Virtue, Happiness, Knowledge: Themes from the Work of Gail Fine and Terence Irwin . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2018 . x+318 pp © 202020 by Cornell University 2020 This volume...

...Sasha Mudd Merritt Melissa , Kant on Reflection and Virtue . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . 2019 pp . © 2021 by Cornell University, 2021 In Kant on Reflection and Virtue , Melissa Merritt offers a detailed interpretation of what she calls “the Kantian...

...Lisa Tessman Christine Swanton, Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 312. Cornell University 2005 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 114, No. 3 (July 2005) Christine Swanton, Virtue...

... to emulate but as a pagan legislator who was surpassed by Moses the lawgiver, through the medium of revelation from God of the Ten Commandments and of the special laws. Like Plato, Philo makes use of preambles and follows Plato's framework of eudaemonism, virtue, and law as the instruments of moral education...

...Liezl van Zyl Swanton Christine , Target Centred Virtue Ethics . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2021 . 351 pp. © 2023 by Cornell University 2023 Christine Swanton is, without question, one of the leading scholars in contemporary virtue ethics. Nevertheless...

...Joachim Aufderheide Kamtekar Rachana , ed., Virtue and Happiness Essays in Honour of Julia Annas. Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Supplementary Volume, 2012 . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . x + 354 pp . © 2015 by Cornell University 2015 This festschrift...

...Rachel Cohon Baier Annette C. , The Cautious Jealous Virtue: Hume on Justice . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2010 . 261 pp . © 2011 by Cornell University 2011 BOOK REVIEWS Richard Bett, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Ancient...

... of Jerusalem Bibliography Heidegger, Martin. 1998. Pathmarks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. The Philosophical Review, Vol. 111, No. 1 (January 2002) ON VIRTUE ETHICS. By ROSALIND HURSTHOUSE. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 275...

... the connections between the Nicomachean Ethics and the one brief physical account of virtue acquisition in Physics VII, Leunissen concedes from the beginning that there are “significant discrepancies” between the two texts. She aims only to use Physics VII.3 “as a starting point for what I take...

...Lorraine Besser-Jones © 2012 by Cornell University 2012 Sobel Jordan Howard , Walls and Vaults: A Natural Science of Morals (Virtue Ethics according to David Hume) . Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley and Sons , 2009 . xiii + 414 pp . BOOK REVIEWS Huw...

... in contemporary accounts, and better understand why modesty is a virtue at all. © 2013 by Cornell University 2013 I am grateful to Nomy Arpaly, Derek Bowman, David Christensen, Alexandra King, and Joshua Schechter for helpful discussion. I also benefited greatly from the insightful comments of two...

...Hendrik Lorenz Gottlieb Paula , The Virtue of Aristotle’s Ethics . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2009 . xix +241 pp . © 2013 by Cornell University 2013 BOOK REVIEWS Paula Gottlieb, The Virtue of Aristotle’s Ethics. New York: Cambridge...

... raises the question, in its discussion of the Statesman , of the relation between sōphrosunē and courage. Rather surprisingly, given the book’s thesis that sōphrosunē is “the” virtue of agency, Moore seems content to concede that, at least from the perspective of the Eleatic Visitor (the protagonist...

...Michael Bergmann Laurence BonJour and Ernest Sosa, Epistemic Justification: Internalism vs. Externalism, Foundations vs. Virtues. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. Pp. vii, 240. Cornell University 2004 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review...

...Talbot Brewer Cornell University 2002 The Philosophical Review, Vol. 111, No. 4 (October 2002) Maxims and Virtues Talbot Brewer Perhaps the most fundamental and distinctive idea of Kantian moral psychology is that no behavior...

...Paula Gottlieb Curzer Howard J. , Aristotle and the Virtues . New York : Oxford University Press , 2012 . 464 pp . © 2015 by Cornell University 2015 Aristotle and the Virtues is an interpretation of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as an unabashed ethic of virtue. Curzer...

...Nomy Arpaly; Timothy Schroeder Theoretical and practical deliberation are voluntary activities, and like all voluntary activities, they are performed for reasons. To hold that all voluntary activities are performed for reasons in virtue of their relations to past, present, or even merely possible...

...Niko Kolodny Rousseau's thought is marked by an optimism and a pessimism that each evoke, at least in the right mood, a feeling of recognition difficult to suppress. We have an innate capacity for virtue, and with it freedom and happiness. Yet our present social conditions instill in us a restless...

... virtue-theoretic—face eerily similar problems. This article also attempts to provide a general explanation of why any version of veritism is doomed to fail. If these arguments are successful, their upshot is that we must look beyond the value of truth if we want to understand the nature and significance...