Phenomenology and Virtue Ethics (Issues in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics)

"The correlation between person and environment has long been a central focus of phenomenological analysis. While phenomenology is usually understood as a descriptive discipline showing how essential features of the human encounter with things and people in the world are articulated, phenomenology is also based on ethical concerns. Husserl himself, the founder of the movement, gave several lecture courses on ethics. This volume focuses on one trend in ethics virtue ethics and its connection to phenomenology. The essays explore how phenomenology contributes to this field of ethics and clarifies some of its central issues, such as flourishing and good character traits. The volume initiates a conversation with virtue ethicists that is underrepresented in the current literature. Phenomenology and Virtue Ethics offers contributions from prominent phenomenologists who explore the following issues: how phenomenology is connected to the ancient Greek or Christian virtue tradition, how phenomenology and its foundational thinkers are oriented toward virtue ethics, and how phenomenology is itself a virtue discipline. The focus on phenomenology and virtue ethics in a single volume is the first of its kind."--Bloomsbury Publishing. Title Page Copyright Page Contents Notes on Contributors Phenomenology and Virtue Ethics: An Introduction Organization of the volume Part I Phenomenology and the Tradition Chapter 1 Phainomenon and Logos in Aristotle’s Ethics Aristotle’s philosophy Aristotle’s ethics Virtue The logos of virtuous living Measuring virtue Logos, deliberation, and action Notes Chapter 2 “Disimpropriation” and Infused Virtue: The Question of (Christian) Virtue Ethics in the Phenomenology of Michel Henry Life as the ground of a fundamental ontology The problem of forgetfulness of life Life’s eudaimonic claim and the phenomenological paradox of recollection Henry’s (christian) ethics: “Disimpropriation” and infused virtue Notes Chapter 3 Being and Virtuousness: Toward a Platonic-Heideggerian Virtue Ethics Introduction Heidegger and the good Heideggerian phenomenology Virtue, happiness, and the good Conclusion Notes Chapter 4 Horizon Intentionality and Aristotelian Friendship Horizon intentionality The horizons of friendship Conclusion Notes Chapter 5 Value, Affectivity, and Virtue in Aristotle, Scheler, and von Hildebrand Values, action, and affectivity Virtue, affectivity, and prohairesis Prohairesis, preference, and values Notes Part II Theoretical and Contemporary Comparative Accounts Chapter 6 Phenomenology, Eudaimonia, and the Virtues Phenomenology as eidetic The issue concerning normativity Intentionality’s teleology Truthfulness in the axiological and volitional spheres Goods for an agent and the goods of agency Toward the virtues Notes Chapter 7 Phenomenology and Virtue Ethics: Complementary Antitheoretical Methodological and Ethical Trajectories? Phenomenological method(s) Phenomenology and ethics Dreyfus and moral maturity The good, moral virtue, and flourishing in phenomenology Ethics and time: Historicity and futurity Theory and antitheory: Phenomenology and virtue ethics Notes Chapter 8 Virtues, Values, and the Heart: The Phenomenology of Scheler and von Hildebrand Values and the heart Virtues and their ground Conclusion Notes Chapter 9 The Self that Recedes: A Phenomenology of Virtue Perception, affordances, and virtue Flow experience: Expertise and moral action The recession of the self in virtuous action Conclusion Notes Part III Application of Phenomenology as a Virtue Discipline Chapter 10 The Virtues of Agency: A Phenomenology of Confidence, Courage, and Creativity Agency The virtues of agency I: Primary self-confidence The virtues of agency II: Primary courage The virtues of agency III: Primary creativity Conclusion: Ethical agency Notes Chapter 11 Heideggerian Perfectionism and the Phenomenology of the Pedagogical Truth Event Notes Chapter 12 Descent to the Things Themselves: The Virtue of Dissent Observing and living according to the natural order of things Phenomenological observation and description Sartrean phenomenological realism Sartrean literary phenomenological descent The virtue of dissent Notes Chapter 13 Correlates of the Good Life: Body, Wilderness, and Expertise The problem of the natural attitude Enthusiasm, sympathy, and tolerance Nurturing a space for the good in the body The wilderness Socially responsible expertise Afterword Notes References Index