This book is an excellent (!) treatment of many of the current debates surrounding virtue ethics and the various challenges it faces as a normative theory. Of particular interest to people working in the field is the discussion of the situationist challenge to virtue ethics and Adams' responses.
Excellence and Being for the Good
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