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The virtue of conflict: an institutional approach to the study of conflict in community forest governance

International Forestry Review, 2013
SUMMARY Conflict may simultaneously help and hinder the local governance of community forests. Based on 499 observations of forest user groups included in the International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI) database, it is shown here that variables which are associated with good community forestry outcomes also correlate positively with the ...
Laerhoven, F.S.J. van, Andersson, K.P.
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The Return to Soft Dollar Pegging in East Asia: Mitigating Conflicted Virtue [PDF]

International Finance, 2004
AbstractBefore the 1997–98 crisis, the East Asian economies – except for Japan – informally pegged their currencies to the dollar. These soft pegs made them vulnerable to a depreciating yen, thereby aggravating the crisis. To limit future misalignments, the IMF wants East Asian currencies to float freely. Alternatively, authors have proposed increasing
Ronald McKinnon, Gunther Schnabl
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Moral Complexity, Conflicted Resonance and Virtue

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1995
In his admirably sensible book, Scheffler shows that it is possible-but difficult-to combine a morally upright life with one that is rich and satisfying.1 He identifies the psychological traits that can be enlisted as allies in our attempts to act justly, arguing that the range of moral projects-and our success in fulfilling them-varies with our ...
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Work-Family Conflict: A Virtue Ethics Analysis

Journal of Business Ethics, 2002
Work-family conflict has been examined quite often in human resources management and industrial/organizational psychology literature. Numerous statistics show that the magnitude of this employment issue will continue to grow. As employees attempt to balance work demands and family responsibilities, organizations will have to decide to what extent they ...
Marc C. Marchese, Gregory Bassham, Jack Ryan   +2 more
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UNDERSTANDING DOCTORS' ETHICAL CHALLENGES AS ROLE VIRTUE CONFLICTS

Bioethics, 2011
ABSTRACTThis paper argues that doctors' ethical challenges can be usefully conceptualised as role virtue conflicts. The hospital environment requires doctors to be simultaneously good doctors, good team members, good learners and good employees. I articulate a possible set of role virtues for each of these four roles, as a basis for a virtue ethics ...
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The Conflict in Moral Education: Teaching Principles or Virtues?

The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 1991
(1991). The Conflict in Moral Education: Teaching Principles or Virtues? The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas: Vol. 64, No. 5, pp. 293-296.
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Intellectual Humility and the Ends of the Virtues: Conflicting Aretaic Desiderata

Political Theology, 2016
This essay demonstrates that disagreement about how to characterize intellectual humility masks deeper disagreement about the ends the intellectual virtues are meant to serve. This has been largely unacknowledged in discussions of intellectual humility, and of the intellectual virtues generally.
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The virtue and vice of workplace conflict: food for (pessimistic) thought

Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2007
AbstractMany authors, myself included, have suggested that workplace conflict may be beneficial to the organization. I argue that the support for this conclusion is rather weak. A selective and necessarily limited review of the literature shows that: (1) the positive functions of conflict are found only under an exceedingly narrow set of circumstances,
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Virtue and Marital Conflict: A Theoretical Formulation and Research Agenda

Sociological Perspectives, 2000
This article presents a theoretical perspective and a research agenda for the study of the relationship between love and effective conflict management in marriage. Love is conceptualized as virtue. Five virtues, regarded as components of benevolent love, are considered: prudence, temperance, fortitude, justice, and charity.
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The Unpleasant Pleasure of Virtue: A Conflict Model of Kantian Eudaimonism

Kantian Review
Abstract This paper examines the pleasant state of virtue in Kantian eudaimonism. I investigate how Kantian virtue can be eudaimonistic for finite agents, for whom conflict is never eliminated. I argue that the pleasant dimension of virtue is realized not through harmony between reason and sensibility but as a pleasant state that is ...
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