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The nature of the virtues has a long tradition of thought, from Aristotle to Thomas Aquinas. This book considers the virtues in various cultural, religious, and philosophical contexts. Examining the key virtues, and some of the vices, it explores the cultivation of the virtues as an alternative way of moral thinking.

A comprehensive philosophical treatment of the virtues and their competing vices. The first four sections focus on historical classes of virtue: the cardinal virtues, the capital vices and the corrective virtues, intellectual virtues, and the theological virtues. A final section discusses the role of virtue theory in a number of disciplines.

This is a comprehensive philosophical treatment of the virtues and their competing vices. The first four sections focus on historical classes of virtue: the cardinal virtues, the capital vices and the corrective virtues, intellectual virtues, and the theological virtues. A final section discusses the role of virtue theory in a number of disciplines

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I. Epistemology after Darwin -- Introduction -- The Principles of Psychology -- The Gay Science -- The Evolution of Self- Consciousness -- The Fixation of Belief -- Great Men, Great Thoughts, and the Environment -- The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy -- Part II. Ethics after Darwin -- Introduction -- The Descent of Man -- The Data of Ethics -- The Challenge of Facts -- The Gospel of Wealth -- Socialism -- Mutual Aid -- Human Progress: Past and Future -- The Right to Make War -- The Call of the Wild -- Principia Ethica: Naturalistic Ethics -- Evolution and Ethics -- Part III. The Evolution of Ideas -- Introduction -- Darwinism as a Metaphysical Research Programme -- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions -- The Evolutionary Development of Natural Science -- Memes and the Exploitation of Imagination -- Three Challenges for the Survival of Memetics -- Altruism in Science: A Sociobiological Model of Cooperative Behavior among Scientists -- Why Reason Can't Be Naturalized: Evolutionary Epistemology -- Part IV. The Evolution of Rationality -- Introduction -- Kant's Doctrine of the A Priori in the Light of Contemporary Biology -- The View from Somewhere: A Critical Defense of Evolutionary Epistemology -- How the Mind Works -- Evolution, Thinking, and Rationality -- The Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism: An Initial Statement of the Argument -- Darwin's Doubt, Calvin's Calvary -- Part V. Ethics and Progress -- Introduction -- On Human Nature -- A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation -- Darwinian Conservatism -- Moral Philosophy as Applied Science -- Four Ways of "Biologicizing" Ethics -- A Defense of Evolutionary Ethics -- Part VI. The Evolution of Altruism -- Introduction -- The Liver and the Moral Organ -- Unto Others -- Is Human Morality Innate? -- Game Theory in Evolutionary Biology -- Ethics and Intuitions -- Evolution and Ethics: The Sociobiological Approach -- The Darwinian Moral Sense and Biblical Religion -- Thomistic Natural Law and the Limits of Evolutionary Psychology -- An Evolutionary Account of Evil -- Falling Up: Evolution and Original Sin -- SOURCES AND CREDITS -- FURTHER READING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX