How Should One Live?

How Should One Live? offers an authoritative survey of the remarkable recent revival of philosophical interest in the virtues. It features twelve specially commissioned pieces by a distinguished international team of authors. A broad range of topics is covered: practical virtue ethics; ancient views of the virtues; impartiality and partiality; Kant and the virtues; utilitarianism and the virtues; the virtues and human nature; natural and artificial virtues; virtue and the good life; the vices; virtue and the emotions; virtue and politics; feminism, moral education, and the virtues; and virtue and community. These essays give an ideal introduction to current work in this area.