Friendship and Virtue Ethics in the Book of Job

by Patricia Vesely

For classical philosophers, friendship was a serious topic of ethical reflection, yet in contemporary discussions on ethics, this subject is largely absent. Drawing upon Aristotelian ethics based on virtue, Patricia Vesely examines friendship as a moral category in the Book of Job, illuminating those virtues, motivations, and perceptions that this relationship entails. She argues that for Job, the virtues of loyalty, compassion, courage, humility,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108476473
• ISBN13: 9781108476478
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 9.0"