Spiritual Paths to Virtue

Abstract

"Urgings of the Heart: A Spirituality of Integration Paulist Press (1995), 170 Pages, $14.95 By William Spohn You won't find books in the philosophy section of your local bookstore on how to live a more virtuous life. Sidney Callahan, author of In Good Conscience, concludes that philosophers have little to say about developing the habits of heart called virtues. In our secular culture, which prizes pluralism, most philosophers worry that if they spell out the content of the good life beyond the most minimal values—fairness, tolerance, equality—they run the risk of endorsing specific religious or moral traditions to the detriment of other positions. So virtue retreats from the public square into the private sphere"