Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Contesting the World-Making Prejudice
2: Fragmented Activities, Fragmented Lives
3: Fluency in Practical Thinking
4: Savoring Time: Pleasure and Unreserved Activity
5: The Primacy of Good
6: Against Modern Dualism about the Good
7: Virtues and Other Selves
8: The Virtues in Theory and Practice

About the Author

Talbot Brewer is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition Talbot Brewer's The Retrieval of Ethics is a deep, provocative, and wide-ranging contribution to the virtue ethical critique of modern moral philosophy. ... Brewer is not afraid to go out on a limb when led there by the logic of his argument, carving out new conceptual space in the process. This is what makes the book refreshing.... [This is] an enormously rich book that draws fruitfully upon philosophical, literary, and
theological works and covers an incredibly broad swath of philosophical terrain. ... In sum, The Retrieval of Ethics is a challenging and rewarding contribution not only to the narrow field called "virtue
ethics", but to practical philosophy very broadly construed.'
Tamar Schapiro, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews