David McPherson explores the place of limits within a well-lived human life and discusses his original account of limiting virtues, which are concerned with recognizing proper limits in human life. Selected limiting virtues include humility, reverence, moderation, contentment, neighborliness, and loyalty. This discussion draws from McPherson’s recent book The Virtues of Limits  (Oxford University Press, 2022).

David McPherson is Professor of Philosophy in the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida. He has previously held positions at Creighton University and the University of Colorado Boulder. McPherson works in the areas of ethics (especially virtue ethics), political philosophy, meaning in life, and philosophy of religion. He is the author of The Virtues of Limits (Oxford University Press, 2022) and Virtue and Meaning: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2020), as well as the editor of Spirituality and the Good Life: Philosophical Approaches (Cambridge University Press, 2017). McPherson is currently working on his third book monograph titled Spiritual Alienation and the Quest for God in conjunction with leading a Templeton funded grant project on spiritual yearning among the nonreligious.