In The Virtues of Limits, David McPherson offers us an historically rich and philosophically robust defence of the idea that humans flourish only when and insofar as they recognize and abide by certain well-founded constraints. What is particularly valuable about his treatment is that it demonstrates how the importance of such constraints is evidenced across different domains: existential, moral, political, and economic. The cogency of this demonstration is matched
only by its timeliness, given that our time is one that finds constraints as such increasingly hard to rationalize.
David McPherson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Creighton University. He works in the areas of ethics (especially virtue ethics), political philosophy, meaning in life, and philosophy of religion. He is the author of Virtue and Meaning: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and editor of Spirituality and the Good Life: Philosophical Approaches (Cambridge University Press, 2017). He is President of Philosophers in
Jesuit Education, and he is also a co-founder of The Heartland Virtue Ethics Network.
