This book explores recent developments in ethics of virtue. While acknowledging the Aristotelian roots of modern virtue ethics - with its emphasis on the moral importance of character - this collection recognizes that more recent accounts of virtue have been shaped by many other influences, such as Aquinas, Hume, Nietzsche, Hegel and Marx, Confucius and Lao-tzu. The authors also examine the bearing of virtue ethics on other disciplines such as psychology, sociology and theology, as well as attending to some wider public, professional and educational implications of the ethics of virtue. This pioneering book will be invaluable to researchers and students concerned with the many contemporary varieties and applications of virtue ethics.

;Philip Gorski.- 12. Chapter 11: The deep psychology of eudaimonia and virtue: belonging, loyalty and the anterior cingulate cortex. Blaine Fowers.- 13. Chapter 12: Virtue, the common good and self-transcendence. Candace Vogler.- Part 3: Virtue Ethics and the Wider Professional and Educational Context.- 14. Chapter 13: Plato on the Necessity of Imitation and Habituation for the Cultivation of the Virtues. Mark Jonas.- 15. Chapter 14: Maintaining primary professional virtues by protecting properly oriented relationships: medical practice as a case study. Justin Oakley.- 16. Chapter 15: 'Till we have faces': second-person relatedness as the object, end and crucial circumstance of perfect or 'infused' virtues. Andrew Pinsent.- 17. Chapter 16: The seduction of Kierkegaard's aesthetic sphere. Kevin Gary.- 18. Chapter 17: Distinguishing Post-Traumatic Growth from Psychological Adjustment among Rwandan Genocide Survivors. Laura E. R. Blackie, Eranda Jayawickreme, Nicki Hitchcott and Stephen Joseph.- 19. Chapter 18: Educating for the wisdom of virtue. David Carr.