Chapter 5: Focus on Character (and Virtues)
Below are the online resources referenced in this chapter’s endnotes and “Further Reading” list.
The Good Life, According to Aristotle
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, trans. H. Rackham (Loeb Classical Library), 1125b,
- 21, https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL073/1926/volume.xml.
- Warburton, Nigel. “Aristotle on ‘Flourishing,’” BBC, March 2015, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02n2bhz.
- Crash Course. “Aristotle & Virtue Theory: Crash Course Philosophy #38.” YouTube. December 5, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrvtOWEXDIQ.
- Warburton, Nigel, and Roger Crisp. “Roger Crisp on Virtue.” Philosophy Bites. Produced by the Institute of Philosophy. October 12, 2008. Podcast.
https://philosophybites.libsyn.com/roger_crisp_on_virtue
The Good Life, According to Buddhism
- Fink, Charles K. “Cultivation of Virtue in Buddhist Ethics.” Journal of Buddhist Ethics 20 (2013). https://blogs.dickinson.edu/buddhistethics/2013/11/14/cultivation-of-virtue-in-buddhist-ethics/.
- Whitehill, James. “Buddhist Ethics as Virtue Ethics.” Journal of Buddhist Ethics 1 (1994). https://blogs.dickinson.edu/buddhistethics/2010/04/05/buddhist-ethics-in-western-context-the-virtues-approach/.