Moral cultivation

Most writing on virtue ethics concentrates on what virtue is. This collection turns to the prior question of how people come to acquire it, examining the ongoing process by which a person develops good character.

Editor Brad K. Wilburn has assembled essays that approach this question from several traditions. Contributors draw on Confucian thought, ancient Greek philosophy, classical rabbinic writing, David Hume's moral theory and Immanuel Kant's ethics.

The essays range widely, but they return to a few central questions: what moral cultivation looks like in practice, which parts of the self need developing and by what methods, and how moral theories connect with everyday moral experience. The volume is intended for students and scholars of ethics and philosophy at every level.