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Author Giebel, Heidi M. (Heidi Marie), author.

Title Ethical excellence : philosophers, psychologists, and real-life exemplars show us how to achieve it / Heidi M. Geibel.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (409 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Description based upon print version of record.
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: Foundations of Ethical Excellence -- 1. Theoretical Foundations: Ethical Excellence and the Good Life -- 2. Practical Foundations: Recognizing Your Potential -- 3. Personal Foundations: Willpower -- Part 2: Knowing Yourself: The Good, the Not-So-Good, and the Potentially Good -- 4. Examining Your Life -- 5. Refusing to Rationalize -- 6. Honesty: The Courage to Tell the Truth -- Part 3: Fixing Your Flaws: Broadening Your View and Taming Your Inner Beast -- 7. Broadening Your View -- 8. Temperance: Taming Your Inner Beast
9. Perseverance: The Strength to Keep Going -- Part 4: Good Thing It's Not All about You: Understanding, Humility, and Learning by Example -- 10. Understanding Others -- 11. Identifying Role Models: Positive and Negative -- 12. Humility: Living with Your Limits -- Part 5: Giving People What They Deserve: What You Owe Your Parents, Your Benefactors, and People in General -- 13. Justice: Treating People Rightly -- 14. Piety: Revering Your Roots -- 15. Gratitude: Acknowledging Goodness -- Part 6: Extending Goodness: Next Door, across the World, and Everywhere in Between
16. Friendship: Keeping Good Company -- 17. Befriending the World -- 18. Benevolence and Generosity: The Most Lovable Virtues -- Part 7: Pursuing Wisdom-and What to Do until You Find It -- 19. Tying It All Together: Practical Wisdom and Ethical Virtue -- 20. When All Else Fails... -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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Subject Excellence.
Excellence.
Conduct of life.
Conduct of life.
Other Form: Print version: Giebel, Heidi M. Ethical Excellence : Catholic University of America Press,c2020 9780813233338
ISBN 0813233348
9780813233345 (electronic book)