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In the United States, there exists increasing uneasiness about the predominance of self-interest in both public and private life, growing fear about the fragmentation and privatization of American society, mounting concerns about the effects of institutions—ranging from families to schools to the media—on the character of young people, and a renewed tendency to believe that without certain traditional virtues neither public leaders nor public policies are likely to succeed. In this thirty-fourth volume in The American Society of Legal and Political Philosophy, a distinguished group of international scholars from a range of disciplines examines what is meant by virtue, analyzing various historical and analytical meanings of virtue, notions of liberal virtue, civic virtue, and judicial virtue, and the nature of secular and theological virtue.
The contributors include: Jean Baechler (University of Paris-Sorbonne), Annette C. Baier (University of Pittsburgh), Ronald Beiner (University of Toronto), Christopher J. Berry (University of Glasgow), J. Budziszweski (University of Texas), Charles Larmore (Columbia University), David Luban (University of Maryland), Stephen Macedo (Harvard University), Michael J. Perry (Northwestern University), Terry Pinkard (Georgetown University), Jonathan Riley (Tulane University), George Sher (University of Vermont), Judith N. Shklar (Harvard University), Rogers M. Smith (Yale University), David A. Strauss (University of Chicago), and Joan C. Williams (American University).

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title page, Copyright page
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Preface
  2. p. ix
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. xi-xii
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-22
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  1. I: ANALYTICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
  1. 1: VIRTUE: ITS NATURE, EXIGENCY, AND ACQUISITION
  2. pp. 25-48
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  1. 2: RELIGION AND CIVIC VIRTUE
  2. pp. 49-68
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  1. 3: ADAM SMITH AND THE VIRTUES OF COMMERCE
  2. pp. 69-88
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  1. II: EPISTEMOLOGY OF THE VIRTUES
  1. 4: KNOWING ABOUT VIRTUE
  2. pp. 91-116
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  1. 5: VIRTUES AND RELATIVISM
  2. pp. 117-131
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  1. 6: ON THE GOOD OF KNOWING VIRTUE
  2. pp. 132-141
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  1. III: LIBERALISM, NEUTRALITY, AND LIBERAL VIRTUES
  1. 7: THE MORAL VOCABULARY OF LIBERALISM
  2. pp. 145-184
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  1. 8: THE LIMITS OF ARISTOTELIAN ETHICS
  2. pp. 185-196
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  1. 9: THE LIBERAL VIRTUES
  2. pp. 197-203
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  1. 10: CHARTING LIBERAL VIRTUES
  2. pp. 204-232
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  1. IV: JUDICIAL VIRTUE
  1. 11: JUSTICE HOLMES AND JUDICIAL VIRTUE
  2. pp. 235-264
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  1. 12: JUDICIAL VIRTUE AND DEMOCRATIC POLITICS
  2. pp. 265-282
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  1. 13: JUSTICE WITHOUT VIRTUE
  2. pp. 283-288
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  1. V: SOME SPECIAL VIRTUES
  1. 14: SOME VIRTUES OF RESIDENT ALIENAGE
  2. pp. 291-308
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  1. 15: VIRTUE AND OPPRESSION
  2. pp. 309-337
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  1. 16: LIBERAL PHILANTHROPY
  2. pp. 338-385
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  1. VIRTUE: A BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY
  2. pp. 387-389
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 391-408
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