There is no attempt here to build a unified theory of ethics or of the virtues. As one would expect from a meal prepared by so many cooks, Virtues and Their Vices does not deliver a single soup. Some of the essays have multiple authors, so the book has thirty one contributors. Virtues and Their Vices is a collection of twenty two essays, freshly written for this volume, addressing that region of ethical theory called “virtue theory.” Most of the authors are philosophers, with two essays contributed by psychologists and one by a theologian.
Reviewed by Philip Smith, Christian Studies, George Fox University
