Emplotting Virtue

Emplotting VirtueA rich hermeneutic account of the way virtue is understood and developed. Despite its ancient roots, virtue ethics has only recently been fully appreciated as a resource for environmental philosophy. Other approaches dominated by utilitarian and duty based appeals for sacrifice and restraint have had little success in changing behavior, even to the extent that ecological concerns have been embraced. Our actions often do not align with our beliefs.

Fort Tryon Park

and reality

and Roberto Bolaño

and alienation

and economic forces that can influence the quality of late life relationships

when it was presumed that white ethnics living in urban America were predisposed to responding to the civil rights movement with backlash and the women's movement with scorn

Freeman recounts several discussions where he was referred to being unlike other Americans

By 1500 it was among the top 60 towns in England by wealth and taxpayers

This book argues that the absence of women in the development of international law has produced a narrow and inadequate jurisprudence that has legitimated the unequal position of women worldwide rather than confronted it

life cycle assessment (LCA)

The Rostov family leaves in a hurry

Lying abroad reconstructs the tumultuous early modern career of a jobbing ambassador