Alternatives to Neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethics [PDF]
, 2017 Most contemporary variants of virtue ethics have a neo-Aristotelian timbre. However, standing alongside the neo-Aristotelians are a number of others playing similar tunes on different instruments. This chapter highlights the four most important virtue ethical alternatives to the dominant neo-Aristotelian chorus.
Glen Pettigrove
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Using practical wisdom to facilitate ethical decision-making: a major empirical study of phronesis in the decision narratives of doctors [PDF]
BMC Medical Ethics, 2021 Background Medical ethics has recently seen a drive away from multiple prescriptive approaches, where physicians are inundated with guidelines and principles, towards alternative, less deontological perspectives.
Mervyn Conroy +5 more
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Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism as a Metaethical Route to Virtue-Ethical Longtermism
Moral Philosophy and PoliticsAbstract This article proposes a metaethical route from neo-Aristotelian naturalism, as developed in particular by Philippa Foot, to virtue-ethical longtermism. It argues that the metaethical assumptions of neo-Aristotelian naturalism inherently imply that a valid description of the life-form of a species must satisfy a formal ...
Richard Friedrich Runge
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Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism, Local Ethical Supervenience, and the Beneficial Character of Virtue
Zeitschrift Für Ethik Und MoralphilosophieAbstractThis article explores the ambivalent relationship of neo-Aristotelian naturalism to ethical supervenience. One of the main proponents of this approach, Michael Thompson, holds a position that leads to a rejection of local ethical supervenience.
Richard Friedrich Runge
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A Philosophical Approach to Friendship and Other-Concern With an Emphasis on the Neo-Aristotelian Philosopher Julia Annas in Morality of Happiness [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2020 With the revival of virtue ethics in 1958, new philosophical debates in the field of friendship emerged. Nowadays, the Neo-Aristotelians are reviving and modifying the ancient Aristotelian concepts.
Naghmeh Parvan +2 more
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Leadership as a Christian Practice
Scandinavian Journal for Leadership & Theology, 2023 Leadership is by its very essence, directed towards the future. It may be understood as a process of influencing others to commit and dedicate themselves to future visions and goals (Yukl, 2010, p. 26; Kotter, 1996, p. 9).
Bård Norheim
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Faster, Higher, More Moral: Human Enhancement and Christianity
Religions, 2022 The three authors of this article explore the intersection of moral enhancement, ethics, and Christianity. Trothen reviews the meaning and potential of moral enhancements, considering some of the risks and limitations.
Michael Buttrey +2 more
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Zagzebski’s Theory of Divine Motivation about the Relation of Religion and Morality [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2014 Divine Motivation theory is an ethical theory with a theological foundation, attempting to explain the relation between religion and morality in the context of Christian theology with emphasizing on neo-Aristotelian and motivation-based ethics.
Shima Shahriyari, Mohsen Javady
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Aristotelský argument z ergon a současné teorie ctností
Filosofický časopis, 2023 Contemporary neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics engage in great detail with the concept of human nature. This is also the case with Philippa Foot and Rosalind Hursthouse, who, in their argumentation, use the so-called ergon argument that can be unambiguously
Hloch, Roman
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The vices of naturalist neo‐Aristotelian virtue ethics
Philosophical Investigations, 2023 AbstractWhile the modern revival of virtue ethics largely looks back to Aristotle, most, if not all, versions of this trend continue to be much indebted to and/or based upon specific mid‐twentieth‐century neo‐naturalist and descriptivist critiques of prevailing antinaturalist trends of that time: specifically, upon Anscombe's critique of the ethics of ...
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