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Uncovering the moral heuristics of altruism: A philosophical scale. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 Extant research suggests that individuals employ traditional moral heuristics to support their observed altruistic behavior; yet findings have largely been limited to inductive extrapolation and rely on relatively few traditional frames in so doing ...
Julian Friedland +2 more
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Ethics and the Perfect Moral Law [PDF]
Tyndale Bulletin, 2000 This paper examines contemporary virtue ethics and the claim that Christian ethics is a virtue ethic. Three central theses are identified as being central to virtue ethics: a priority thesis, a perfectionist thesis and a communitarian thesis.
Harry Bunting
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Virtue and Care in Modern Ethics [PDF]
Relacje Międzykulturowe, 2017 In this paper I compare two contemporary moral theories; virtue ethics and the ethics of care. They both reject traditional ethical positions – Kantian ethics and utilitarianism.
Dariusz Juruś
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How can neuroscience contribute to moral philosophy, psychology and education based on Aristotelian virtue ethics? [PDF]
, 2016 The present essay discusses the relationship between moral philosophy, psychology and education based on virtue ethics, contemporary neuroscience, and how neuroscientific methods can contribute to studies of moral virtue and character. First, the present
Han, Hyemin
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, 2012 Virtue ethics is often proposed as a third way in health-care ethics, that while consequentialism and deontology focus on action guidelines, virtue focuses on character; all three aim to help agents discern morally right action although virtue seems to ...
Beauchamp T. +10 more
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, 2009 In this paper I argue that the disagreement between modern moral philosophers and (some) virtue ethicists about whether motive affects rightness is a result of conceptual disagreement, and that when they develop a theory of ‘right action,’ the two ...
van Zyl, Liezl
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Conscience Working within Prudentia—Instructed by Thomas Deman’s Reading of Aquinas
Religions, 2022 The French Dominican Thomas Deman (1899–1954) argued for the restoration of the virtue of prudentia against a background of moral theology and philosophy that, as he saw it, had replaced the centrality of prudenti a with a centrality of conscience.
Fáinche Ryan
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Virtue ethics: Beyond moral theory
South African Journal of Bioethics and Law, 2015 In December 2013, a 52 year old man and a practising Jehovah’s Witness was admitted to Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital (CHBAH), Soweto, Johannesburg.
Karen Koch, Colin Menezes
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Moral Responsibility, Justice, and Freedom [PDF]
, 2020 Freedom, and in particular, the freedom of human beings, is a hot topic within the field of metaphysics. In this paper, instead of arguing for the truth of a particular position on freedom, I explore whether a particular position, compatibilism, might be
Smith, Jonathan
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Forgiveness Or Fairness? [PDF]
, 2015 Several philosophers who argue that forgiveness is an important virtue also wish to maintain the moral value of retributive emotions that forgiveness is meant to overcome.
Thomason, Krista Karbowski
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