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Copyright 1986 by FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS All rights reserved. LC 85-80404 ISBN 0-8232-1144-4 First edition 1986 Reprinted 1989
Printed in the United States of America
Page v
Contents
Editor's Preface
vii
Yves R. Simon (1903-1961): A Bio-Bibliography
Marie-Vincent Leroy, O.P.
ix
1. Modern Substitutes for Virtue
1
Natural Goodness
2
Social Engineering
8
Psycho-technology
12
2. Clearing up Some Confusions
19
Nature and Use
19
Spontaneity and Reason
29
Forms of Sociability
34
3. Further Necessary Distinctions
47
Habit
48
Habitus
55
Opinion
61
4. Virtue Is Not Science
69
Readiness
71
Disposition
79
5. The Definition of Moral Virtue
91
Traditional Moral Virtues
95
The Definition
104
How Do We Know Right from Wrong?
107
Virtue and Objectivity
111
6. The Interdependence of Virtues
125
Index
133
Page vii
Editor's Preface
This book has its origin in a course on "Virtues" given by Yves R. Simon in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago in the fall quarter of 1957. Professor Simon's lectures as well as his extended replies to students' questions were recorded on tape by Richard Marco Blow, who later also arranged for the transcripts. Professor Simon hoped to use this material either as part of his projected "Philosophical Encyclopedia" or as a separate volume in a series of "Philosophical Inquiries." The onset of the illness that caused his death in 1961, however, prevented him from working on the revision of the manuscript. But he did suggest, in a marginal note, the title which it is here given.
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