Object of Virtue

Object of Virtue
Title Object of Virtue PDF eBook
Author Nicholas B.A. Nicholson
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 301
Release 2004-04-15
Genre Fiction
ISBN 074326942X

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A dazzling debut about the power of family and the pain of betrayal set within Manhattan's Fifth Avenue apartments, the opulent mansions of the new Moscow, and the pre-revolutionary palaces of Saint Petersburg. Sasha Ozerovsky is a young expert in Russian art at Leighton's, an exclusive Manhattan auction house. When a dealer arrives from Moscow with an exquisite 1913 Fabergé figurine, Sasha immediately recognizes a rare masterpiece. But in the high stakes art world, the price of an object is tied to its history. If Sasha can determine for whom the bejeweled piece was made and where it has been hiding for the past century, its value -- and Sasha's career -- will soar. But as Sasha moves between New York's high society and Russia's new rich, he discovers that the piece once belonged to his family, and he must face questions about their past that he never dared to ask. Superbly plotted and evoking the elegance of Russia's gilded age, Object of Virtue is an enthralling tale that explores what happens to a family torn between vanity and virtue.

Intellectual Virtue

Intellectual Virtue
Title Intellectual Virtue PDF eBook
Author Michael Raymond DePaul
Publisher Clarendon Press
Pages 308
Release 2003
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0199219125

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"Virtue ethics has attracted a lot of attention and there has been considerable interest in virtue epistemology as an alternative to traditional approaches in that field. This book fills a gap in the literature for a text that brings virtue epistemologists and virtue ethicists together."-- Back cover.

Aquinas on Virtue

Aquinas on Virtue
Title Aquinas on Virtue PDF eBook
Author Nicholas Austin
Publisher Georgetown University Press
Pages 258
Release 2017
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1626164738

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Aquinas on Virtue is an original interpretation of one of the most compelling accounts of virtue in the Western tradition, that of the great theologian and philosopher Thomas Aquinas. This book offers a systematic analysis of Aquinas on the nature, genesis, and role of virtue in human life.

Objects of Virtue

Objects of Virtue
Title Objects of Virtue PDF eBook
Author Luke Syson
Publisher Getty Publications
Pages 292
Release 2001
Genre Art
ISBN 9780892366576

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You are what you own. So believed many of the elite men and women of Renaissance Italy. The notion that a person's belongings transmit something about their personal history, status, and "character" was renewed in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Objects of Virtue explores the multiple meanings and values of the objects with which families like the Medici, Este, and Gonzaga surrounded themselves. This lavishly illustrated volume examines the complicated relationships between the so-called "fine arts"--painting and sculpture--and artifacts of other kinds for which artistry might be as important as utility-furniture, jewelry, and vessels made of gold, silver, and bronze, precious and semi-precious stone, glass, and ceramic. The works discussed were designed and made by artists as famous as Andrea Mantegna, Raphael, and Michelangelo, as well as by lesser-known specialists--goldsmiths, gem-engravers, glassmakers, and maiolica painters.

Virtue, Vice, and Value

Virtue, Vice, and Value
Title Virtue, Vice, and Value PDF eBook
Author Thomas Hurka
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 285
Release 2003
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0195158652

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Hurka's book puts forth a comprehensive theoretical account of moral virtue and vice. More specifically, it gives an account of the intrinsic goodness of virtue, and intrinsic evil of vice, that can fit into a consequentialist moral theory.

A Theory of Virtue

A Theory of Virtue
Title A Theory of Virtue PDF eBook
Author Robert Merrihew Adams
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 265
Release 2006
Genre Electronic books
ISBN 0191525898

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The distinguished philosopher Robert M. Adams presents a major work on virtue, which is once again a central topic in ethical thought. A Theory of Virtue is a systematic, comprehensive framework for thinking about the moral evaluation of character. Many recent attempts to stake out a place in moral philosophy for this concern define virtue in terms of its benefits for the virtuous person or for human society more generally. In Part One of this book Adams presents anddefends a conception of virtue as intrinsic excellence of character, worth prizing for its own sake and not only for its benefits. In the other two parts he addresses two challenges to the ancient idea of excellence of character. One challenge arises from the importance of altruism in modern ethical thought, and the question of what altruism has to do with intrinsic excellence. Part Two argues that altruistic benevolence does indeed have a crucial place in excellence of character, but that moral virtue should also be expected to involve excellence in being for other goods besides the well-being (and the rights) of other persons. It explores relations among cultural goods, personal relationships, one's own good, and the good of others, as objects of excellent motives.The other challenge, the subject of Part Three of the book, is typified by doubts about the reality of moral virtue, arising from experiments and conclusions in social psychology. Adams explores in detail the prospects for an empirically realistic conception of excellence of character as an object of moral aspiration, endeavor, and education. He argues that such a conception will involve renunciation of the ancient thesis of the unity or mutual implication of all virtues, and acknowledgment ofsufficient 'moral luck' in the development of any individual's character to make virtue very largely a gift, rather than an individual achievement, though nonetheless excellent and admirable for that

Inner Virtue

Inner Virtue
Title Inner Virtue PDF eBook
Author Nicolas Bommarito
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 209
Release 2018
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0190673389

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Inner virtue and vice -- Pleasure -- Emotion -- Attention -- The relevance of inner virtue