• Introduction


• 1: Christopher Coope: Modern virtue ethics


• 2: Linda Zagzebski: The admirable life and the desirable life


• 3: Fred Miller: Virtue and rights in Aristotle's best regime


• 4: Antony Duff: The virtues and vices of virtue jurisprudence


• 5: Hallvard Fossheim: Habituation as mimêsis


• 6: Adam Morton: Moral incompetence


• 7: Timothy Chappell: The variety of life and the unity of practical wisdom


• 8: Paul Russell: Moral sense and virtue in Hume's ethics


• 9: Christine Swanton: Can Nietzsche be both a virtue ethicist and an existentialist?


• 10: Karen Stohr: Manners, morals, and practical wisdom


• 11: Sandrine Berges: The hardboiled detective as moralist


• 12: Johan Braennmark: 'Like the Bloom on Youths': How pleasure completes our lives


• 13: Theodore Scaltsas: Mixed determinates: pleasure, good, and truth


• 14: Talbot Brewer: Three dogmas of desire

After 25 centuries, Aristotle's influence on our society's moral thinking remains profound and he continues to be a very important contributor to contemporary debates in philosophical ethics. This collection showcases some of the best new writing on the Aristotelian notion of virtue of character, which remains central to much of the most interesting work in ethical theory.