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Virtue Ethics

A Pluralistic View

By: Christine Swanton

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Virtue Ethics

A Pluralistic View

By: Christine Swanton

Major concerns of modern ethical theory are addressed from a character-based perspective in this new, comprehensive theory of virtue ethics.

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Target Centred Virtue Ethics

By: Christine Swanton

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Virtue ethics in its contemporary manifestation is dominated by neo Aristotelian virtue ethics primarily developed by Rosalind Hursthouse. This version of eudaimonistic virtue ethics was ground breaking, but has been subject to considerable critical attention. Christine Swanton shows that the time is ripe for new developments and alternatives. The target centred virtue ethics proposed by Swanton is opposed to orthodox virtue ethics in two major ways. First, it rejects the 'natural goodness' metaphysics of Neo Aristotelian virtue ethics owed to Philippa Foot in favour of a 'hermeneutic ontology' of ethics inspired by the Continental tradition and McDowell. Second, it rejects the well -known 'qualified agent' account of right action made famous by Hursthouse in favour of a target centred framework for assessing rightness of acts. Swanton develops the target centred view with discussions of Dancy's particularism, default reasons and thick concepts, codifiability, and its relation to the Doctrine of the mean. Target Centred Virtue Ethics retains the pluralism of Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View (2003) but develops it further in relation to a pluralistic account of practical reason. This study develops other substantive positions including the view that target centred virtue ethics is developmental, suitably embedded in an environmental ethics of "dwelling"; and incorporates a concept of differentiated virtue to allow for roles, narrativity, cultural and historical location, and stage of life.

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0192606131

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Love and its Place in Virtue

By: Christine Swanton

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Love and its Place in Virtue

By: Christine Swanton

In Love and its Place in Virtue, Christine Swanton argues for an original position on the relations between love and virtue and love and virtue ethics. For this task the distinction between love as an emotion or emotional orientation and virtuous forms of love is central, as is the role of a conception of practical wisdom in virtuous love. How love features in virtue in general, including virtues which are not virtues of love, is the central theme. This book integrates virtue ethics with a renewed interest in the role of love in ethics. Until now virtue ethics and philosophical accounts of love have been separate fields. In Swanton's account of love she argues that there are many criteria for love which feature in various ways in the different forms of love. Central is the distinction between relational love between individuals and lovingness (in its various forms) as a fundamental emotional orientation towards the world as a whole (a Grundstimmung). Love and its Place in Virtue discusses "foundational" love (universal love, self-love and dwelling love), some of the impartial virtues of love, notably universal beneficence, impartial caring and forgiveness, as well as the relation between love and the personal virtue of justice, arguing that though justice is a virtue of respect it should be loving.

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Oxford University Press

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0198922671

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The Virtue Ethics of Hume and Nietzsche

By: Christine Swanton

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The Virtue Ethics of Hume and Nietzsche

By: Christine Swanton

This ground-breaking and lucid contribution to the vibrant field of virtue ethics focuses on the influential work of Hume and Nietzsche, providing fresh perspectives on their philosophies and a compelling account of their impact on the development of virtue ethics. A ground-breaking text that moves the field of virtue ethics beyond ancient moral theorists and examines the highly influential ethical work of Hume and Nietzsche from a virtue ethics perspective Contributes both to virtue ethics and a refreshed understanding of Hume’s and Nietzsche’s ethics Skilfully bridges the gap between continental and analytical philosophy Lucidly written and clearly organized, allowing students to focus on either Hume or Nietzsche Written by one of the most important figures contributing to virtue ethics today

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John Wiley & Sons

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The Virtue Ethics of Hume and Nietzsche

By: Christine Swanton

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The Virtue Ethics of Hume and Nietzsche

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Virtue Ethics

A Pluralistic View

By: Christine Swanton

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Virtue Ethics

A Pluralistic View

By: Christine Swanton

Christine Swanton offers a new, comprehensive theory of virtue ethics which addresses the major concerns of modern ethical theory from a character-based perspective. Discussion of many problems in moral theory, such as moral constraints, rightness of action, the good life, the demandingness of ethics, the role of the subjective, and the practicality of ethics, has been dominated by Kantian and Consequentialist theories, with their own distinctive conceptual apparatus. Virtue Ethics shows how a different framework can shed new light on these intractable issues. Swanton's approach is distinctive in that it departs in significant ways from classical versions of virtue ethics derived primarily from Aristotle. Employing insights from Nietzsche and other sources, she argues against both eudaimonistic virtue ethics and traditional virtue ethical conceptions of rightness. In developing a pluralistic view, she shows how different 'modes of moral acknowledgement' such as love, respect, appreciation, and creativity, are embedded in the very fabric of virtue, the moral life, and the good life.

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Clarendon Press

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019153112X

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Target Centred Virtue Ethics

By: Christine Swanton

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Target Centred Virtue Ethics

By: Christine Swanton

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Hidden History of Lake Champlain

By: Jason Barney,Christine Eldred

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Hidden History of Lake Champlain

By: Jason Barney,Christine Eldred

Lake Champlain is one of America's most historic waterways, but much of its history has remained hidden. With the arrival of Europeans, the lake became a vital route between the English in New England and the French in Quebec. Its isolated beauty contrasted sharply with the bloody military campaigns that unfolded there. While enormous forts were erected, colonial villages blossomed, and 18th century naturalist Peter Kalm spread the word of its bucolic charm. William Miller attracted large audiences as he preached that the world would end in the 1840s. Valcour Island developed its own commune, and when Prohibition took effect, the towns near the Canadian border became a hotbed of bootlegging. From presidential visits to shipwrecks, local authors Jason Barney and Christine Eldred chronicle some of the lake's lesser-known contributions to American history.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1540262669

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The Social Archaeology of Food

Thinking about Eating from Prehistory to the Present

By: Christine A. Hastorf

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The Social Archaeology of Food

Thinking about Eating from Prehistory to the Present

By: Christine A. Hastorf

Introduction : The Social Life of Food -- Part I. Laying the Groundwork -- Framing Food Investigation -- The Practices of a Meal in Society -- Part II. Current Food Studies in Archaeology -- The Archaeological Study of Food Activities -- Food Economics -- Food Politics : Power and Status -- Part III. Food and Identity : The Potentials of Food Archaeology -- Food in the Construction of Group Identity -- The Creation of Personal Identity : Food, Body and Personhood -- Food Creates Society

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Cambridge University Press

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1107153360

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Indispensable Counsel

The Chief Legal Officer in the New Reality

By: E. Norman Veasey,Christine T. Di Guglielmo

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Indispensable Counsel

The Chief Legal Officer in the New Reality

By: E. Norman Veasey,Christine T. Di Guglielmo

Legislation and case law following the relatively recent corporate scandals have increased scrutiny on the ethics and integrity of individuals, and the culture they create, at the highest levels within the corporate structure. The corporate General Counsel (GC) is a key member of that group. This enhanced attention increases the already substantial tensions facing the GC, who must navigate the demands and interests of various corporate stakeholders-including the board of directors, officers (particularly the CEO), stockholders, and employees-while also serving the best interests of the client, which is-and should only be-the corporation itself. In light of these heightened expectations on ethics, integrity, and other liability concerns, Indispensable Counsel: The Chief Legal Officer in the New Reality examines the key role of the independent, yet business-oriented, chief legal officer. Indispensable Counsel provides readers with the foundations of corporate representation followed by practical guidelines on how the multiple roles of GC are, or should be, resolved, with best practices as the goal. Former Supreme Court Justice of Delaware E. Norman Veasey and coauthor Christine T. Di Guglielmo bring their stature and wealth of experience in the field to bear in this must-have resource for anyone interested in the role of corporate counsel.

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Oxford University Press

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0199875294

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The Encyclopedia of Adoption

By: Christine A. Adamec,Laurie C. Miller

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The Encyclopedia of Adoption

By: Christine A. Adamec,Laurie C. Miller

Includes information on the Adoption and Safe Families Act, a federal law created to encourage the adoption of foster children. This encyclopedia also includes information on other adoption issues such as laws concerning adoptions by gays and lesbians, tax issues, school and adopted children, birthfather rights, transracial adoptions, and more.

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Infobase Publishing

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0816075042

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W. B. Yeats

A Census of the Manuscripts

By: Conrad A. Balliet,Christine Mawhinney

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W. B. Yeats

A Census of the Manuscripts

By: Conrad A. Balliet,Christine Mawhinney

This title, first published in 1990, is a census of the manuscripts of William Butler Yeats. The census includes not only his books, plays and poetry but also the whereabouts of many of Yeats’s letters and speeches, and will be of particular interest to students of literature. For further reading please refer to Conrad A. Balliet’s chapter ‘A Supplement to W. B. Yeats: A Census of the Manuscripts’ in Richard J. Finnerman’s (Editor) Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies (Volume XIII, 1995, The University of Chicago Press).

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Routledge

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1315512394

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Memory Lands

King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast

By: Christine M. DeLucia

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Memory Lands

King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast

By: Christine M. DeLucia

Noted historian Christine DeLucia offers a major reconsideration of the violent seventeenth-century conflict in northeastern America known as King Philip’s War, providing an alternative to Pilgrim-centric narratives that have conventionally dominated the histories of colonial New England. DeLucia grounds her study of one of the most devastating conflicts between Native Americans and European settlers in early America in five specific places that were directly affected by the crisis, spanning the Northeast as well as the Atlantic world. She examines the war’s effects on the everyday lives and collective mentalities of the region’s diverse Native and Euro-American communities over the course of several centuries, focusing on persistent struggles over land and water, sovereignty, resistance, cultural memory, and intercultural interactions. An enlightening work that draws from oral traditions, archival traces, material and visual culture, archaeology, literature, and environmental studies, this study reassesses the nature and enduring legacies of a watershed historical event.

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Yale University Press

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0300231121

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9780300231120

Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland

The Kindness of Strangers

By: Christine Kinealy

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Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland

The Kindness of Strangers

By: Christine Kinealy

The Great Irish Famine was one of the most devastating humanitarian disasters of the nineteenth century. In a period of only five years, Ireland lost approximately 25% of its population through a combination of death and emigration. How could such a tragedy have occurred at the heart of the vast, and resource-rich, British Empire? Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland explores this question by focusing on a particular, and lesser-known, aspect of the Famine: that being the extent to which people throughout the world mobilized to provide money, food and clothing to assist the starving Irish. This book considers how, helped by developments in transport and communications, newspapers throughout the world reported on the suffering in Ireland, prompting funds to be raised globally on an unprecedented scale. Donations came from as far away as Australia, China, India and South America and contributors emerged from across the various religious, ethnic, social and gender divides. Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland traces the story of this international aid effort and uses it to reveal previously unconsidered elements in the history of the Famine in Ireland.

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A&C Black

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144111758X

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9781441117588

Character, Virtue Theories, and the Vices

By: Christine McKinnon

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Character, Virtue Theories, and the Vices

By: Christine McKinnon

This book argues that the question posed by virtue theories, namely, “what kind of person should I be?” provides a more promising approach to moral questions than do either deontological or consequentialist moral theories where the concern is with what actions are morally required or permissible. It does so both by arguing that there are firmer theoretical foundations for virtue theories, and by persuasively suggesting the superiority of virtue theories over deontological and consquentialist theories on the question of explaining morally bad behavior. Virtue theories can give a richer account by appealing to the kinds of dispositions that make certain bad choices appear attractive. This richer account also exposes a further advantage of virtue theories: they provide the best kinds of motivations for agents to become better persons.

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Broadview Press

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1551112256

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9781551112251

Trees Beyond the Wood (colour)

By: Ian D. Rotherham,Christine Handley,Mauro Agnoletti,Tomasz Samojlik

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Trees Beyond the Wood (colour)

By: Ian D. Rotherham,Christine Handley,Mauro Agnoletti,Tomasz Samojlik

Trees Beyond the Wood was written for a conference organised to celebrate twenty years of work since the first major conference on the theme of ancient trees and woodlands held in Sheffield, UK. It was held almost ten years after the landmark 2003 Working and Walking in the Footsteps of Ghosts event which started to raise issues and challenge assumptions about what is 'ancient' or 'natural' and what is meant by the terms 'wood' or 'woodland'. Since then on-going work in a range of disciplines across ecology, biology, landscape history, archaeology, forestry and nature conservation has continued the process of research and evaluation across the subject area. The collection of papers by contributors from across Europe reflects this broad range of interests and disciplines.

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Lulu.com

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1904098509

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9781904098508

Curriculum Focus - The Invaders KS2

By: Christine Moorcroft

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Curriculum Focus - The Invaders KS2

By: Christine Moorcroft

This Popular series that will inspire teachers, especially the the non-specialists, to teach history with confidence. The books contains everything you need: comprehensive background information, detailed lesson plans and further reources for extension.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1909333964

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Evaluation of Health Care Quality in Advanced Practice Nursing

By: Joanne V. Hickey,Christine A. Brosnan

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Evaluation of Health Care Quality in Advanced Practice Nursing

By: Joanne V. Hickey,Christine A. Brosnan

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826107664

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9780826107664

Christine's Vision

By: Christine de Pizan

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Christine's Vision

By: Christine de Pizan

Originally published in 1993, this book offers a translation of Christine de Pizan's Christine's Vision, as translated by Glenda K. McLeod. One of France's first professionl writers, Christine de Pizan wrote a large and remarkable body of work, distinguished not only for its variety and quality but also for its unusual blend of introspective and public commentary. As Christine's Vision makes clear, Christine sensed the similarities between her fate and France's and felt a close bond with her adopted land.

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Routledge

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0429656688

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Ohio Online

The Harvest of Ohioʾs Best Web Sites

By: Barbara Christine Brattin

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Ohio Online

The Harvest of Ohioʾs Best Web Sites

By: Barbara Christine Brattin

Serving as yellow pages for Internet sites, Ohio Online has harvested over 1500 of the best Ohio websites to fill the gab and bring Ohioans information they can use in their daily lives. Readers can learn where to get in touch with restaurants, museums, travel, sports, performing arts, healthcare, and kids.

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1882203186

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The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine

By: Donna Olendorf,Christine Jeryan,Karen Boyden

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The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine

By: Donna Olendorf,Christine Jeryan,Karen Boyden

Contains articles that provide medical information about a wide variety of common diseases, disorders, tests, and treatments; arranged alphabetically from G-to-M; and includes cross-references, definitions of terms, and lists of resources.

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Gale Cengage

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0787618713

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9780787618711

Freedom

A Coherence Theory

By: Christine Swanton

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Freedom

A Coherence Theory

By: Christine Swanton

Presents a theory of freedom as the absence of various flaws, breakdowns, and restrictions that limit the potential flourishing of human beings as agents.

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Hackett Publishing

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0872201287

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Freedom

A Coherence Theory

By: Christine Swanton

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Freedom

A Coherence Theory

By: Christine Swanton

Presents a theory of freedom as the absence of various flaws, breakdowns, and restrictions that limit the potential flourishing of human beings as agents.

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Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated

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