The primary aim of Sports, Virtues and Vices is to situate ethics at the heart of sports via ‘virtue ethical’ considerations that can be traced back to the gymnasia of ancient Greece. By exploring the evolving link between sporting behaviour and the prevailing ethics of the time this comprehensive and wide-ranging study illuminates our understanding of the wider social significance of sport. Sports have long played an important role in society. it will generatea moreheterogeneous accountof the virtues than MacIntyre offered us: If we understand virtues and vicesas . Instead he argued that virtues are dispositional qualities of persons that give us reasons for our preference. Vices and Virtues Being a Soul s Confession of Its Sins with Reason s Description of the Virtues There you can join conversations, find out more, and meet other scholars and artists interested in this vibrant tradition. You can continue this book's conversation by visiting. What these works show is the vitality and richness of the virtues and vices in the arts from their origins to the present. Also included are artworks from medieval manuscripts paintings by Giotto, Veronese, and Paul Cadmus prints by Brueghel and a photograph by Oscar Rejlander. This anthology includes excerpts of Plato's Republic, the Bible, Dante's Purgatorio, and the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche and C.
Starting with the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian antecedents, this anthology of source documents traces the virtues-and-vices tradition through its cultural apex during the medieval era and then into their continued development and transformation from the Renaissance to the present. This book brings all of them together and for the first time lays out their history in a collection of the most important philosophical, religious, literary, and art-historical works. The seven virtues are prudence, fortitude, temperance, justice, faith, hope, and love. The seven deadly sins are pride, envy, anger, sloth, gluttony, greed, and lust. The man's ripped sock reveals a bloody wound inflicted by Vice, . This work features a young man poised between Vice and Virtue. In 1580, the Italian painter Paolo Veronese produced The Choice between Virtue and Vice. It is a unique and compelling addition to the philosophical treatment of the virtues as well as their import in a wide spectrum of disciplines. Virtues and Their Vices engages contemporary philosophical scholarship as well as relevant scholarship from related disciplines throughout. The treatment of the virtues in this present volume is sensitive to the historical heritage of the virtues, including their theological heritage, without paying undue attention to the historical and theological issues. The final section discusses the role virtue theory and the virtues themselves play in a number of disciplines, ranging from theology and political theory to neurobiology and feminism. Each of the first four sections focuses on a particular, historically important class of virtues: the cardinal virtues, the capital vices (or 'seven deadly sins') and the corrective virtues, intellectual virtues, and the theological virtues. Each of the essays, written exclusively for this volume, not only locates discussion of that virtue in its historical context, but also advances the discussion and debate concerning the understanding and role of the virtues. Virtues and Their Vices is the only extant contemporary, comprehensive treatment of specific virtues and, where applicable, their competing vices. A comprehensive philosophical treatment of the virtues and their competing vices.
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