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Athletic virtue and aesthetic values in Aristotle’s ethics

, 2020
When Aristotle praises pentathletes’ beauty at Rhetoric 1361b, it is not the idle observation of a sports fan. In fact, the balanced and harmonious beauty of athletes’ bodies reflects Aristotle’s ideal of a virtuous soul in the Nicomachean Ethics: one ...
H. Reid
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Maimonides' Political Thought: Studies in Ethics, Law, and the Human Ideal

, 1999
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Howard Kreisel
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Liberation Ethics and Idealism

New Blackfriars, 1984
Liberation theologies provide a framework for serious reflection about systemic issues. But some liberation theologians, while urging social change, foster a guilt-inducing process which actually prevents both personal and social change. The tendency to moralize individual life is thus simply transposed into moralizing and collective issues.
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Health and salvation as the ethical ideal

Journal of Religion & Health, 1981
Health and salvation are related terms, because each seeks the well-being of the whole person. When placed within the Judeo-Christian context, health as salvation can be defined as the highest good for the total human community. This good is denied to humanity through the unequal use of the world's resources, a fact underscored by the current energy ...
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Neutrality and Its Discontents: An Essay on the Ethics of Librarianship

portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2019
:This essay analyzes the debate about neutrality in the library literature and identifies a fundamental moral dilemma that generates debate. It then advances an argument in favor of library neutrality based on Wayne Bivens-Tatum's intellectual history of
John Wenzler
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Ethical and Epistemic Egoism and the Ideal of Autonomy

Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology, 2007
In this chapter, three degrees of epistemic egoism are distinguished, each of which has an ethical analogue; the chapter argues that all three are incoherent. The first is extreme epistemic egoism, the view that the fact that someone else has a belief is never a reason for one to believe it.
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Ethics as a Weapon of War: Militarism and Morality in Israel

, 2017
What role does ethics play in modern-day warfare? Is it possible for ethics and militarism to exist hand-in-hand? James Eastwood examines the Israeli military and its claim to be 'the most moral army in the world'.
James Eastwood
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Nietzsche's Early Ethical Idealism

The Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 2016
ABSTRACT Many recent scholars have interpreted Nietzsche as an ethical naturalist in the long tradition of Aristotle. This article challenges that interpretation by arguing that the early period Nietzsche is an ethical idealist in the tradition of Kant.
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The Protestant Ethic and the Analytic Ideal

Political Psychology, 1983
Weber's conceptualization of the Protestant ethic has played a significant role in modern social and economic thought. However, a flaw, which he himself had noted, is that he was putting forth a psychological argument when psychology was not yet adequately developed. A striking omission is the release of hatred and violence engendered by the Protestant
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Moral Ideals and Virtue Ethics

The Journal of Ethics, 2010
There have traditionally been two schools of thought regarding moral ideals and their relationship with moral duty. First, many have held that moral agents at all times have a duty or obligation to realize or attain moral ideals, or at least they have a duty to strive to realize or attain them.
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