Description
The virtues of endurance -- perseverance, patience, resilience, and constancy -- are central to success in any goal-oriented challenging activity that a person undertakes. Gaining a rich understanding of these virtues requires insights from multiple areas of study, but most treatments of the virtues of endurance to date have remained within narrow disciplinary boundaries. No longer. In this volume, philosophers, psychologists, legal scholars, educational theorists, medical practitioners, military theorists, and theologians have labored together to advance our understanding of endurance. Written with scholars in mind, this volume is nevertheless accessible to students and general readers. This volume is divided into two sections: Explorations and Applications. The first section considers the nature of a given virtue, while the second section showcases the relevance of endurance to important areas of our lives. Taken as a whole, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of this ever-important virtue, offering both a theoretical and practical roadmap to working through challenging activities.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Nathan L. KingExplorations1. Perseverance and Pertinacity: Persisting for the Difficult Good: Jennifer A. Herdt2. Virtues of Willpower and Self-Possession: Robert C. Roberts and Ryan West3. Intellectual Patience: Controlling Temporally-Charged Urges in the Life of the Mind: Josh Dolin and Jason Baehr4. Hope and Resilience: Nancy E. Snow5. Intellectual Perseverance, Grit, and Growth Mindset: Nathan L. King6. Patience, Perseverance, and Goal Pursuit: Philosophical and Psychological Analysis of Aquinas's Distinctions: Juliette Ratchford, Timothy Pawl, and Sarah A. SchnitkerApplications7. Hold the Line! Endurance in Times of War: Peter D. Harms, Paul B. Lester, and Daniel R. Smith8. Cultivating Persistence: A Disposition for Success: Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick9. Perseverance in the Polity and the Person: What the Soul Might Learn from the City: Sherman J. Clark10. Towards an End: Perseverance in Medical Training and Practice: Michael K. Hawking, Benjamin W. Frush, and John D. Yoon11. Perseverance in the Religious Life: Daniel J. McKaughan and Daniel Howard-Snyder
