Passionate Deliberation Emotion, Temperance, and the Care Ethic in Clinical Moral Deliberation

Despite the modem recovery of virtue theory in ethics, conceptions of temperance remain largely unexamined. In this study I offer an examination ofcertain interpretive threads oftemperance as a virtue beginning in classical philosophy and moving through early to medieval Christian conceptions. I fin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carr, M.F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2001, 2001
Edition:1st ed. 2001
Series:Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 The Broad Conception Of Temperance
  • 2 The Narrow Conception Of Temperance
  • 3 A Normative Account Of Temperance
  • 4 Emotion, Desire, And Morality
  • 5 Temperance In Relation To Emotion
  • 6 Temperance As Equanimity In Clinical Medicine
  • 7 Emotion And The Care Ethic In Clinical Deliberation
  • 8 Conclusion: Care-Ful, Rational, Moral Deliberation