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Virtues and Their Vices

2016-01-16Kevin Timpe

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.

Author	Kevin Timpe
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Release Date	2016-01-16
ISBN	0198753667
Pages	522 pages
Rating	4/5 (67 users)

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