Beyond the Self

These essays honor Professor Solomon both by speaking to his core interests and by each making valuable contributions. The collection includes papers by well-known, significant participants in debates in moral philosophy and papers by some younger scholars, now making their own important contributions to the case for virtue ethics.

~Jonathan Jacobs, Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Beyond the Self challenges widespread assumptions in ethics, and many of the authors also present their own positive views. The volume is a fitting tribute to David Solomon as a master teacher and one of the leading mentors in moral philosophy in the past half century.

~Robert Audi, John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame

Beyond the Self offers a wonderful introduction to a tradition of enquiry that Professor Solomon has helped to advance and renew. True to the practice of the man himself, the essays in this volume engage ethical concerns from within their normative, historical, and cultural context. The volume is a high-level conversation about contemporary issues in ethics.

~Michael Sherwin, Professor of Theology, University of Fribourg

This exceptional and timely collection of essays, written by David Solomon’s students and colleagues, pays due homage to Professor Solomon's philosophical legacy, and is a testament to the hope that his influence will long endure.

~Jennifer A. Frey, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of South Carolina

While the volume on the whole is critical of Kantian and utilitarian philosophies, a few of the contributors open the door for an incorporation of the modern turn to the subject within the umbrella of Aristotelian-Thomist moral philosophy. The book is recommended for scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates in moral philosophy and theology, especially those interested in the work of Anscombe.

~Christopher Denny, Journal of Moral Theology

This volume is recommended for scholars and students from philosophy, theology, religious studies, cultural studies, and other quarters who are interested in the history of virtue ethics and the challenges that a modern ethic of virtue faces.

~Diana Fritz Cates, The Thomist