Friendship and Virtue Ethics in the Book of Job

ISBN-13: 9781108476478 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 294 str.

Patricia Vesely

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'Patricia Vesely's Friendship and Virtue Ethics in the Book of Job is an important interdisciplinary work … an important contribution to both biblical studies and theological ethics.' David B. Hunsicker, Reading Religion

Spis treści

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.