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Kant’s Theory of Virtue: The Value of Autocracy

By Anne Margaret Baxley (NHC Fellow, 2003–04) Anne Margaret Baxley offers a systematic interpretation of Kant's theory of virtue, whose most distinctive features have not been properly understood. She explores the rich moral psychology in Kant's later and less widely read works on ethics, and argues that the key to understanding his account of virtue … Continued

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Material Virtue: Ethics and the Body in Early China

By Mark Csikszentmihalyi (NHC Fellow, 1997–98) This book reconstructs a neglected episode in the development of Confucianism, one that considerably influenced later Chinese religious thought. Material Virtue examines a set of four through first century B.C.E. Chinese texts that argue virtue has a physical correlate in the body. Based on both transmitted (e.g., the Mengzi or Mencius) … Continued