Toward Thriving Communities: Virtue Ethics as Social Ethics

Toward Thriving Communities: Virtue Ethics as Social Ethics by Stiltner, Brian. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781599826899.

What is the relationship between personal virtue and the common good? Toward Thriving Communities: Virtue Ethics as Social Ethics demonstrates how developing individual virtue can lead to a vision for collaboratively improving the wider world. With chapter overviews and summaries, review questions, integrated case studies, definitions, and suggestions for further reading, this text provides a thorough and accessible case for the inseparable pursuits of both personal and societal flourishing. Brian Stiltner is professor of theology and religious studies and department chair of philosophy, theology, and religious studies at Sacred Heart University.