Abstract
Abstract
This chapter provides accounts of virtues and flourishing and argues that growth in virtue is likely to promote growth in flourishing. Virtues are conceptualized as traits of character that involve valuable ways of responding to what is valuable. For human beings, virtues may need to be suitable to human nature and productive of the ends of human beings. Given this account, it is argued that the traits discussed in Part Two of the text, including spiritual excellence, will qualify as virtues. A flourishing life is conceptualized as one that involves acting in accordance with virtue over a complete life. This may not require virtue; for example, continence may be sufficient, but growth in virtue tends to promote greater flourishing. The chapter concludes by considering the relationship between flourishing and well-being, where it is argued that growth in flourishing should be motivating even if flourishing is not equivalent to well-being.
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Oxford University PressOxford
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