...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...

...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...

...Lorraine Besser-Jones 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 . © 2012 by Cornell University 2012 BOOK REVIEWS Huw...

... in contemporary accounts, and better understand why modesty is a virtue at all. 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 referees for the Philosophical Review...

...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...

... benefit if you are sad. The high standard of production (complete with index), as is the custom for Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy , matches that of the papers. Specialists in ancient philosophy will find this volume rewarding, as will contemporary philosophers interested in virtue ethics...

...Zoli Filotas Leunissen Mariska , From Natural Character to Moral Virtue in Aristotle . New York: Oxford University Press , 2017 . xxxii + 216 pp . © 2019 by Cornell University 2019 Mariska Leunissen's new book argues that, for Aristotle, nature makes it difficult or impossible...

...Mi-Kyoung Lee Fourth, Plato is, according to Annas, the first philosopher to put forward the thesis that “a happy life requires the priority in it of living virtuously” (108). As for whether Plato thinks virtue is necessary or sufficient for happiness, Annas does not think that he had quite...

...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...

...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...

...Julia Driver ON VIRTUE ETHICS. By Rosalind Hursthouse. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 275. Cornell University 2002 BOOK REVIEWS make a significant contribution to ongoing efforts to understand our recent philosophical past...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Gabriel Greenberg What is it for a picture to depict a scene? The most orthodox philosophical theory of pictorial representation holds that depiction is grounded in resemblance. A picture represents a scene in virtue of being similar to that scene in certain ways. This essay presents evidence...

...Theron Pummer It seems plausible that (i) how much punishment a person deserves cannot be affected by the mere existence or nonexistence of another person. We might have also thought that (ii) how much punishment is deserved cannot increase merely in virtue of personal division. I argue that (i...

...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...