Table of Contents

I. VIRTUE
1: The Anatomy of Virtue
2: Normative Dimensions of Virtue
3: Virtue and the Good Life
4: What Makes a Character Trait a Virtue
II. PROFILES OF THE VIRTUES
5: Love and Respect
6: Expression
7: Creativity
III. SHAPE OF THE VIRTUES
8: Objectivity
9: Demandingness
10: Virtue and Constraints
IV. VIRTUE AND ACTION
11: A Virtue Ethical Account of Right Action
12: Virtues of Practice
13: Virtue and Indeterminacy
Conclusion

Reviews

`Review from previous edition With Christine Swanton's new book, contemporary virtue ethics takes a confident step out of the philosophical nursery ... no one interested in the health and prospects of moral philosophy should ignore this excellent book.'
Samantha Vice, Times Literary Supplement
`Swanton's pluralism is a welcome and important contribution ... Her account is complex and provocative'
George Harris, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews