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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: theory of virtue
    sub title: excellence in being for the good
  name:
    name part: Adams, Robert Merrihew
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Oxford University Press
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Clarendon Press
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 249 pages)
  abstract: Presenting and defending a conception of virtue as intrinsic excellence of character, worth prizing for its own sake and not only for its benefits, this work addresses two challenges to the ancient idea of excellence of character. It offers a framework for thinking about the moral evaluation of character.
  table of contents: pt. I. What is virtue? Introduction ; Excellence in being for the good ; Wickedness and vices ; Virtue and its benefits -- pt. II. Self and other. Altruism ; Common projects ; Self-love and the vices of self-preference -- pt. III. Are there really any virtues? Moral inconsistency ; Moral frailty and moral luck ; Do the virtues all imply each other? ; Plural and integrated virtue ; Can virtue be taught?
  note: Robert Merrihew Adams.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-239) and indexes.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: Virtue
  subject:
    topic: Vertus
  subject:
    topic: SELF-HELP
    topic: Personal Growth
    topic: Happiness
  subject:
    topic: Virtue
  subject:
    topic: Ethiek
  subject:
    topic: Deugden
  subject:
    topic: Zelf
  classification: BJ1521 .A23 2006b
  classification: 179.9
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    identifier: (OCoLC)71163815
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    record content source: OUN
    record creation date: 070416
    record change date: 20260318172439.1
    record identifier: in00005701965
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng