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Aquinas on the Dangers of Natural Virtue and the Control of Natural Vice
Tópicos, 2013 I investigate Aquinas’s position that natural virtue can pose dangers to living a moral life, dangers that include natural virtue’s inflexibility to circumstance, the opposing vices it may breed if blindly followed, and its aptitude for deceiving people ...
Marie I. George
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Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 2018 To what extent does a conception of virtue, similar to moral virtue, play a role in aesthetics? I sketch a conception of moral virtue as an orientation towards moral value and moral reasons, a set of dispositions to respond through action and both cognitive and non-cognitive attitudes.
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Stoic Virtue: A Contemporary Interpretation [PDF]
, 2020 The Stoic understanding of virtue is often taken to be a non-starter. Many of the Stoic claims about virtue – that a virtue requires moral perfection and that all who are not fully virtuous are vicious – are thought to be completely out of step with our ...
Siscoe, Wes
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The Suberogation Problem for Lei Zhong's Confucian Virtue Theory of Supererogation [PDF]
, 2019 A virtue-based theory of right action aims to explain deontic moral principles in terms of virtue and vice. For example, it may maintain the following account of moral obligation: It is morally obligatory for an agent A to ϕ in circumstances C if and ...
Ho, Tsung-Hsing
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Sidelining Mitigation: Climate Delay Discourses Among Municipal Legislators in Southeastern Brazil
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how municipal legislators frame climate mitigation and how these framings shift responsibility, narrow the perceived scope of municipal authority, and reduce the urgency or feasibility of local action. We analyzed 31 interviews with city councilors serving on Permanent Environmental Committees across municipalities in ...
Tainá Yumi Patriani
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Prirodzené morálne cnosti podľa Jána Dunsa Scota
Filosofický časopis, 2021 The article presents the prerequisites and primary characteristics of Duns Scotus’ understanding of natural moral virtues. It presents the main arguments of Scotus that led to the modification of the Aristotelian approach to moral virtues in the ...
Chabada, Michal
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Against the Character Solution to the Problem of Moral Luck [PDF]
, 2020 One way to frame the problem of moral luck is as a contradiction in our ordinary ideas about moral responsibility. In the case of two identical reckless drivers where one kills a pedestrian and the other does not, we tend to intuit that they are and are ...
Hartman, Robert J.
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Left Wanting and Left Unheard: A Dual Grievance Model of Populism Across Six European Countries
European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study tests a dual grievance model of populism by examining whether relative deprivation and external political inefficacy are linked to two core dimensions of populist beliefs (people sovereignty and anti‐elitism) via aversive political emotions (anger, sadness and fear) and institutional distrust across six European countries (N = 5487).
Anna Cortijos‐Bernabeu +2 more
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Infused Virtue and "22-Carat" Morally Right Acts
Journal of Moral Theology, 2016 This paper examines the notion that the possession of Aristotelian virtue is a necessary prerequisite of exemplary moral action. In order to do so, it focuses on the account of a single contemporary Aristotelian ethicist, Rosalind Hursthouse. Hursthouse
Angela Knobel
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Expanding the Motivations for Altruism: A Philosophical Perspective [PDF]
, 2013 We argue that attempts to extrapolate moral motives for non-egoistic behavior in organizational behavior often interpret results empathically or deontically, while leaving other moral motivational frames, such as the utilitarian and virtue ethical, under-
Friedland, Julian
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