David McPherson

Broschiertes Buch

The Virtues of Limits

Beschreibung

This book explores the place of limits within a well-lived human life and develops and defends an original account of limiting virtues, which are concerned with recognizing proper limits in human life.

Autor

David McPherson is Professor of Philosophy in the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida as well as Affiliate Professor in the Department of Philosophy. He works in the areas of ethics (especially virtue ethics), political philosophy, meaning in life, and philosophy of religion. He is the author of The Virtues of Limits (Oxford University Press, 2022) and Virtue and Meaning: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2020), as well as the editor of Spirituality and the Good Life: Philosophical Approaches (Cambridge University Press, 2017). He is currently working on completing his third book monograph, Spiritual Alienation and the Quest for God,in connection with a three-year John Templeton Foundation funded grant project on "Spiritual Yearning and the Problem of Spiritual Alienation."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780198969655
• ISBN-10: 0198969651
• Artikelnr.: 73605225