Friendship for Virtue aims to retrieve for contemporary Aristotelian virtue ethics the major importance that the virtue of friendship plays in Aristotle's own texts,...This book succeeds at this aim and does so with clarity.
Professor Kristján Kristjánsson is Deputy Director in the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues and Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics, University of Birmingham. His interests lie in research on character and virtues at the intersection between moral philosophy, moral psychology, and moral education. He has published nine books on those issues, the latest one is Flourishing as the Aim of Education (2020). His previous books include Aristotelian Character Education (2015), which won the SES Prize for the best Education book of 2015, and Virtuous Emotions (2018). Kristjánsson is Editor of the Journal of Moral Education.
