Welcome to the Science of Virtues Research Network
The Arete Initiative at the University of Chicago is pleased to announce a new $3 million research program on a New Science of Virtues. This is a multidisciplinary research initiative that seeks contributions from individuals and from teams of investigators working within the humanities and the sciences. We support highly original, scholarly projects that demonstrate promise of a distinctive contribution to virtue research and have the potential to begin a new field of interdisciplinary study.

RECENT NEWS
The Moral Debate About Torture
A recent debate about the possibility of a moral justification for torture.
 
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Is biotechnology the new alchemy?
The author examines similarities between the science and ethics of biotechnology on the one hand, and those of alchemy on the other...
A Crisis of Character
This recent article frames the U.S.'s current economic crisis in terms of a failure of morality and the virtues.
 
Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue
This book revisits the moral and political philosophy of Adam Smith, capitalism's founding father, to recover his understanding of the morals of the market age.
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Why a "science of virtues?"