Improving Character: Moral Virtues, Strategies, and Questions

Develop moral virtues through forty-five accessible and practical essays Character development requires both understanding what moral virtues look like and how to cultivate them.Improving Character: Moral Virtues, Strategies, and Questions assembles forty-five newly commissioned essays that are concise, engaging, and largely jargon-free to make virtues and character cultivation immediately accessible without sacrificing philosophical depth or rigor.The volume begins with chapters on the need for character improvement and why moral virtue is good for us.Next it covers sixteen moral virtues including courage, patience, temperance, honesty, humility, gratitude, generosity, and justice.It then presents sixteen practical strategies for character development such as friendship, role models, nudging, good manners, disrupting social norms, running, and journaling.Ten essays address challenging questions about the whole enterprise.It closes with Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol as a cautiona