The Virtue of Nonviolence

The Virtue of NonviolenceA study in comparative virtue ethics. Virtue ethics has been a major focus in contemporary moral philosophy since the publication of Alasdair MacIntyre's book After Virtue. Here, in The Virtue of Nonviolence, Nicholas F. Gier argues that virtue ethics is the best option for constructive postmodern philosophy and that Gandhi's own thought is best viewed in light of this tradition. He supports this position by formulating Gandhi's ethics of nonviolence

including Continental philosophy

from the medieval period through the Renaissance

This gold-standard textbook and reference honors the heritage of psychiatric nursing

Imperial love affairs on the stage: the pseudo-Senecan Praetexta Octavia and the opera Il Nerone (1679) / Gesine Manuwald

This political satire illustrates how fundamental needs always take precedence over superficial wants

and music augments the entire grand theme of consubstantiality

mute and white

especially for those raised in monotheistic societies

This book explores responses to poverty in eighteenth-century England

While Western civilization did not follow the path Vico suggested

Canty explores how both geographic location and social spaces

he discovers a strange talisman not unlike the one his hero Horvendile presented to his beloved Ettare