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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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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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Reason, Moral Virtue, and Moral Value
1996Abstract In moral philosophy Aristotle is well known to stand for the primacy of character, judgement, and perceptiveness. For him, the virtues of character and the nuanced appreciation they bring of the multiplicity of legitimate claims there always are on one‘s attention are the central phenomena for ethics.
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2020
Aristotle is not a reductionist with respect to the explanation of human behavior. You are a substance; your form is your soul. A certain mental event is to a certain physical event as form is to matter, and accordingly admits of both physiological and psychological descriptions and explanations.
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Aristotle is not a reductionist with respect to the explanation of human behavior. You are a substance; your form is your soul. A certain mental event is to a certain physical event as form is to matter, and accordingly admits of both physiological and psychological descriptions and explanations.
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2014
The scope of interest and reflection on virtue and the virtues is as wide and deep as the questions we can ask about what makes a moral agent’s life decent, or noble, or holy rather than cruel, or base, or sinful; or about the conditions of human character and circumstance that make for good relations between family members, friends, workers,
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The scope of interest and reflection on virtue and the virtues is as wide and deep as the questions we can ask about what makes a moral agent’s life decent, or noble, or holy rather than cruel, or base, or sinful; or about the conditions of human character and circumstance that make for good relations between family members, friends, workers,
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