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Emplotting virtue : a narrative approach to environmental virtue ethics / Brian Treanor

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Treanor, Brian
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Albany : State University of New York Press, 2014.
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1. Just What Sort of Person Would Do That? -- Introduction -- Moral Reasoning in Contemporary Ethics -- Virtue Ethics -- 2. Virtue Ethics and Environmental Virtue Ethics -- Virtue and Flourishing -- The Middle Way -- Emotion and Action -- Virtue and the Environment -- 3. Virtue: A Constellation of Concerns -- Virtue and Living Well -- A Typology of Virtue: Individual, Social, and Environmental -- 4.A Story of Simplicity: A Case Study in Virtue -- The Scope of Simplicity: More Than Material Restraint -- The Scope of Simplicity: A 'Comprehensive' Virtue -- Thoreau's Narrative., 5. The Challenge of Postmodernity -- The Imprecision and Variability of Virtue Ethics -- The Postmodern Condition -- Postmodern Temptations: Hamlet's Indecision and Meursault's Indifference -- "Postmodern" Virtue Ethics -- 6. Narrative Theory: Stories and Our Lives -- Paul Ricoeur and Narrative Identity -- Richard Kearney and Narrative Epiphanies -- Martha Nussbaum and the Judicious Spectator -- Wayne Booth and Coduction -- Objections: The Return of Relativism and the Excesses of Imagination., and 7. Narrative Environmental Virtue Ethics -- Introduction: Ethical Formation and Reformation -- Ethical Education: Motivation and Transmission -- Ethical Experimentation: Discernment and Understanding -- Ethical Formation: Application and Cultivation -- 8. Epilogue: The "Narrative Goodness" Approach -- The Need for Virtue Ethics and the Need for Narrative -- Three Important Clarifications -- The Literature of Life: A Life Worth Living, a Story Worth Telling.
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9781438451190 (electronic bk.)
1438451199 (electronic bk.)
9781438451176
1438451172
9781438451183
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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