Theology & Philosophy
Virtue, Vice, and Liberty
ABSTRACT
This conference explored the relations between virtue and liberty and vice and liberty, as a way of raising fundamental questions about whether certain states of character are necessary for a person to be able to exercise the sort of liberty made possible by a liberal political/legal order.
READING LIST
Conference Readings
Aquinas, Thomas. Thomas Aquinas: Selected Writings. Edited by Ralph McInerny. New York: Penguin Classics, 1999.
Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. Edited by Terence Irwin. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1999.
Mandeville, Bernard. The Fable of the Bees, or Private Vices, Publick Benefits, Volume I. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 1988.
Taylor, Gabriele. Deadly Vices. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.