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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: virtues of limits
  name:
    name part: McPherson, David
    name part: (Assistant Professor of Philosophy)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2022
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: 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.
  abstract: "Human beings seek to transcend limits. This is part of our potential greatness, since it is how we can realize what is best in our humanity. However, the limit-transcending feature of human life is also part of our potential downfall, as it can lead to dehumanization and failure to attain important human goods and to prevent human evils. Exploring the place of limits within a well-lived human life this work develops and defends an original account of limiting virtues, which are concerned with recognizing proper limits in human life. The limiting virtues that are the focus are humility, reverence, moderation, contentment, neighborliness, and loyalty, and they are explored in relation to four kinds of limits: existential limits, moral limits, political limits, and economic limits. These virtues have been underexplored in discussions about virtue ethics, and when they have been explored it has not been with regard to the general issue of the place of limits within a well-lived human life. The account of the limiting virtues provided here, however, is intended as a counter to other prominent approaches to ethics: namely, autonomy-centered approaches and consequentialist (or maximizing) approaches. This account is also used to address a number of important contemporary issues such as genetic engineering, distributive justice, cosmopolitanism vs. patriotism, and the ethical status of growth-based economics"--Flap of dust jacket.
  table of contents: Existential limits -- Moral limits -- Political limits -- Economic limits.
  note: David McPherson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Virtue
  subject:
    topic: Conduct of life
  subject:
    topic: Vertus
  subject:
    topic: Morale pratique
  subject:
    topic: ethics (philosophical concept)
  subject:
    topic: Conduct of life
  subject:
    topic: Virtue
  classification: BJ1531
  classification: 179.9
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Virtues of limits
    name:
      name part: McPherson, David (Assistant Professor of Philosophy).
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2022
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (OCoLC)1273668016
  identifier: 9780192664662
  identifier: 0192664662
  identifier: 9780192848536
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    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 211209
    record change date: 20260318163521.5
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    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng