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The Virtues of Limits by David McPherson, (Assistant Professor of Philosophy) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Human beings seek to transcend limits. This is part of our potential greatness, since it is how we can realize what is best in our humanity. However, the limit-transcending feature of human life is also part of our potential downfall, as it can lead to dehumanization and failure to attain important human goods and to prevent human evils. This book explores the place of limits within a well-lived human life and develops and defends an original account of limiting virtues, which are concerned with recognizing proper limits in human life. The limiting virtues that are the focus are humility, reverence, moderation, contentment, neighborliness, and loyalty, and they are explored in relation to four kinds of limits: existential limits, moral limits, political limits, and economic limits. These virtues have been underexplored in discussions about virtue ethics, and when they have been explored, it has not been with regard to the general issue of the place of limits within a well-lived human life. The account of the limiting virtues provided here, however, is intended as a counter to other prominent approaches to ethics, namely, autonomy-centered approaches and consequentialist (or maximiz

Who reads The Virtues of Limits?

Author

David McPherson, (Assistant Professor of Philosophy)

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192664662

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Fiction, Humanities