Friendship and Virtue Ethics in the Book of Job

Friendship and Virtue Ethics in the Book of Job

Vesely, Patricia

Cambridge University Press

03/2019

294

Dura

Inglês

9781108476478

15 a 20 dias

This book is for scholars and students of Bible, religion, philosophy, and ethics. It provides a new approach to the Book of Job that incorporates philosophy and ethics in its treatment of friendship, and it discusses such topics as tragedy and moral formation, narrative ethics, and virtue and human flourishing.
1. Introduction to virtue ethics; 2. Friendship in Aristotle; 3. The ethics of reading: friendship in the Old Testament; 4. Friendship in the poetic dialogue; 5. Contrasting moral visions: the Joban prose tale; 6. Virtue and the good life: Job 29; 7. Tragic literature and the cultivation of character.
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