This volume addresses the history, future and contemporary application of virtue ethics.

1. The definition of virtue ethics Christine Swanton; 2. Ancient virtue ethics: an overview with an emphasis on practical wisdom Rachana Kamtekar; 3. Virtue ethics and the Chinese Confucian tradition Philip J. Ivanhoe; 4. Virtue ethics in the medieval period Jean Porter; 5. Hume's anatomy of virtue Paul Russell; 6. The historic decline of virtue ethics Dorothea Frede; 7. Virtue ethics in the twentieth century Timothy Chappell; 8. Virtue ethics and right action Liezl van Zyl; 9. Virtue ethics and bioethics Justin Oakley; 10. Environmental virtue ethics: what it is and what it needs to be Matt Zwolinski and David Schmidtz; 11. The virtue approach to business ethics Edwin Hartman; 12. Virtue and politics Mark LeBar; 13. Happiness and the virtues Daniel C. Russell; 14. The situationist critique of virtue ethics Gopal Sreenivasan.