Here are several books we recommend.

• Danielle Allen, Talking with Strangers
• Margaret Archer, The Reflexive Imperative in Late Modernity
• James Arthur, Education with Character: The Moral Economy of Schooling
• Robert Bellah et al., Habits of the Heart
• Joel Biermann, A Case for Character
• Talbot Brewer, Retrieval of Ethics
• David Carr, Educating the Virtues
• Johann Gerhard, Schola Pietatis
• Gifford Grobien, Christian Character Formation
• James Davison Hunter, Democracy and Solidarity
• James Davison Hunter, The Death of Character
• James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky, Science and the Good
• Kristjan Kristjansson, Aristotelian Character Education
• Kristjan Kristjansson, Friendship for Virtue
• Kristjan Kristjansson and Blaine Fowers, Phronesis: Retrieving Practical Wisdom…
• Werner Jaeger, Paideia (Volume 1)
• Michael Lamb, A Commonwealth of Hope
• John Ma, Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State…
• Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
• Angel Adams Parham and Annika Prather, The Black Intellectual Tradition
• Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
• Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman, Character Strengths and Virtues
• Paul Ricoeur, Oneself As Another
• Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration
• Roger Scruton, The Uses of Pessimism and the Danger of False Hope
• Michael Sherwin, By Knowledge and By Love: … the Moral Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas
• Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self
• Charles Taylor, “What is human agency?” Philosophical Papers Volume 1
• Tyler VanderWeele, “On the promotion of human flourishing,” PNAS 31