Tolkien’s comments on courage as depicted in Beowulf), and they make very many references to recent moral philosophers (such as Josef Pieper, John Rawls, Alasdair MacIntyre, Robert Adams, Bernard Williams, and many others).
Additionally, the authors discuss ideas from other thinkers (such as J. Most of the essays are deeply informed by the history of the virtue tradition, with many careful examinations of the influential work of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. Rather, Virtues and Their Vices provides an appetizing menu, a comprehensive treatment of specific virtues and, in many cases, their competing vices. There is no attempt here to build a unified theory of ethics or of the virtues. As one would expect from a meal prepared by so many cooks, Virtues and Their Vices does not deliver a single soup. Some of the essays have multiple authors, so the book has thirty one contributors. Virtues and Their Vices is a collection of twenty two essays, freshly written for this volume, addressing that region of ethical theory called “virtue theory.” Most of the authors are philosophers, with two essays contributed by psychologists and one by a theologian. Reviewed by Philip Smith, Christian Studies, George Fox University
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