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Virtue Theory for Moral Enhancement
AJOB Neuroscience, 2021Our present moral traits are unable to provide the level of large-scale co-operation necessary to deal with risks such as nuclear proliferation, drastic climate change and pandemics. In order to survive in an environment with powerful and easily available technologies, some authors claim that we need to improve our moral traits with moral enhancement ...
João Fabiano
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2023
Although Early Modern male philosophers arguably moved away from virtue ethics toward theories of obligation, it is less clearly true of women philosophers of that period. I argue that Early Modern women philosophers in France and England mixed elements from virtue ethics and theories of moral obligation in order to theorize their moral experience.
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Although Early Modern male philosophers arguably moved away from virtue ethics toward theories of obligation, it is less clearly true of women philosophers of that period. I argue that Early Modern women philosophers in France and England mixed elements from virtue ethics and theories of moral obligation in order to theorize their moral experience.
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Moral Perfectionism and Virtue
Critical Inquiry, 2019The article examines a dimension of ethics that Stanley Cavell names moral perfectionism, gathering under this label a host of different authors and philosophical lines, with Ludwig Wittgenstein holding the center stage. This dimension of ethics focuses on the mobility and transformation of the self, and in this light it is interesting to compare this ...
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When a Virtue is Not a Virtue: Conditional Virtues in Moral Evaluation
Social Cognition, 2014Four studies show that people distinguish between two sorts of moral virtues: core goodness traits that unconditionally enhance the morality of any agent, and value commitment traits that are conditionally good (i.e., that polarize the morality of good and bad agents).
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MORAL VIRTUE AND REASONS FOR ACTION
Philosophical Issues, 2009Moral virtue is a central notion in ethics, and understanding it is a challenge for action theory and moral psychology. It is no easy task to provide an account of it, but even a plausible account of what moral virtue is leaves largely open the difficult question of what it is to act virtuously and the related question of how we can ensure that we do ...
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Moral Judgments, Moral Virtues, and Moral Norms
Human Affairs, 2010Moral Judgments, Moral Virtues, and Moral Norms The paper consists of two basic parts. In the first, contemporary approaches to moral judgments and their relations with moral virtues and moral norms are analyzed. The focus is on comparing the role of the emotions and reason, and conscious and unconscious processes in forming and/or ...
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2018
When we use virtue-terms to make moral evaluations of persons, attitudes, and actions, we are evaluating the quality of their responsiveness to the reasons morality gives us. A convincing vindication of that claim needs to provide a detailed account of which virtues respond to which reasons.
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When we use virtue-terms to make moral evaluations of persons, attitudes, and actions, we are evaluating the quality of their responsiveness to the reasons morality gives us. A convincing vindication of that claim needs to provide a detailed account of which virtues respond to which reasons.
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Moral Education, Moral Character, and the Virtues
Journal of Educational Thought / Revue de la Pensée Educative, 2018Contrary to the claim of Lawrence Kohlberg that moral virtues are arbitrary standards of character because virtue words lack descriptive content , it is argued that the moral virtues and judgement are indispensible to one another and to the development of moral character. The case is made by a careful analysis of the concepts habit and virtue.
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ARE THERE “CONTRA‐MORAL VIRTUES”?*
Metaphilosophy, 1994L'A. retrouve le sens aristotelicien d'«excellence» pour le terme de vertu en se demandant si, comme l'affirme Slote, il existe des vertus immorales. A travers l'exemple de Gauguin qui a «failli a ses devoirs familiaux» pour partir vivre sa passion, l'A.
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Hume?s Virtues and Moral Psychology
2012In this paper I claim that Hume’s virtue ethics, in line with the classical conceptions, identifies a necessary psychological characteristic for the possession of the virtues: these psychological states are the moral sentiments.
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