Daniel Russell develops the idea that a necessary part of virtue is practical intelligence, the skill of determining what the right (e.g. kind or fair) thing to do would be on a given occasion, which requires much time, experience, and practice. This idea, drawn from classical philosophy, has a key role to play in contemporary virtue ethics.

• 1: Practical Intelligence and the Virtues: An Aristotelian Approach


• Part 1. Phronesis, Virtue, and Right Action


• 2: Right Action for Virtue Ethics


• 3: Right Action and Virtuous Motives


• 4: Right Action and 'the Virtuous Person'


• Part 2. The Enumeration Problem


• 5: The Enumeration Problem


• 6: Individuating the Virtues


• 7: Magnificence, Generosity, and Subordination


• Part 3. Situations, Dispositions, and Virtues


• 8: Situations and Broad-Based Dispositions


• 9: Situations and Dispositions: Examining the Evidence


• 10: From Situationism to Virtue Theory


• Part 4. Defending Hard Virtue Theory


• 11: Phronesis and the Unity of the Virtues


• 12: Responsibility for Character


• Works Cited


• Index Locorum


• General Index

Daniel Russell (Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2000) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wichita State University, Kansas. His main research and teaching interests lie in ancient philosophy, ethics, and political philosophy. He is the author of Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life (Oxford, 2005).