The Virtues of Endurance

Buch | Softcover

376 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-754385-6 (ISBN)

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The virtues of endurance -- perseverance, patience, resilience, and constancy -- are central to success in any goal-oriented challenging activity that a person undertakes. Gaining a rich understanding of these virtues requires insights from multiple areas of study, but most treatments of the virtues of endurance to date have remained within narrow disciplinary boundaries. No longer. In this volume, philosophers, psychologists, legal scholars, educational theorists, medical practitioners, military theorists, and theologians have labored together to advance our understanding of endurance. Written with scholars in mind, this volume is nevertheless accessible to students and general readers.

This volume is divided into two sections: Explorations and Applications. The first section considers the nature of a given virtue, while the second section showcases the relevance of endurance to important areas of our lives. Taken as a whole, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of this ever-important virtue, offering both a theoretical and practical roadmap to working through challenging activities.

Nathan L. King is Edward B. Lindaman Endowed Chair Professor of Philosophy at Whitworth University. He is the author of The Excellent Mind: Intellectual Virtues for Everyday Life (OUP, 2021).

Introduction: Nathan L. King

Explorations
1. Perseverance and Pertinacity: Persisting for the Difficult Good: Jennifer A. Herdt
2. Virtues of Willpower and Self-Possession: Robert C. Roberts and Ryan West
3. Intellectual Patience: Controlling Temporally-Charged Urges in the Life of the Mind: Josh Dolin and Jason Baehr
4. Hope and Resilience: Nancy E. Snow
5. Intellectual Perseverance, Grit, and Growth Mindset: Nathan L. King
6. Patience, Perseverance, and Goal Pursuit: Philosophical and Psychological Analysis of Aquinas's Distinctions: Juliette Ratchford, Timothy Pawl, and Sarah A. Schnitker

Applications

7. Hold the Line! Endurance in Times of War: Peter D. Harms, Paul B. Lester, and Daniel R. Smith
8. Cultivating Persistence: A Disposition for Success: Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick
9. Perseverance in the Polity and the Person: What the Soul Might Learn from the City: Sherman J. Clark
10. Towards an End: Perseverance in Medical Training and Practice: Michael K. Hawking, Benjamin W. Frush, and John D. Yoon
11. Perseverance in the Religious Life: Daniel J. McKaughan and Daniel Howard-Snyder

Erscheinungsdatum	10.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	The Virtues
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	143 x 209 mm
Gewicht	367 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
ISBN-10	0-19-754385-5 / 0197543855
ISBN-13	978-0-19-754385-6 / 9780197543856
Zustand	Neuware