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This Very Short Introduction introduces readers to the various virtues: the moral virtues, the intellectual virtues, and the theological virtues, as well as the capital vices.

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The nature of the virtues has a long tradition of thought, from Aristotle to Thomas Aquinas. This book considers the virtues in various cultural, religious, and philosophical contexts. Examining the key virtues, and some of the vices, it explores the cultivation of the virtues as an alternative way of moral thinking.
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Table of Contents

List of illustrations 1: Whose virtues, which vices? 2: The moral virtues: feeling good about being good 3: The intellectual virtues: being mindful 4: Whose culture? which virtues? Confucian and Islamic contributions to the virtues 5: The theological virtues: be good, by God! 6: The capital vices: good gone wrong, very wrong 7: Conclusion Further reading Index