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The Aristotelian Philosophy of the Martial Arts
Aristotle’s approach to ethics is proposed as a useful way to understand the role that the martial arts play in the life of the martial artist. Neo-Aristotelian philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, in his classic work After Virtue, introduces the concept of a
Charles H. Hackney
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Kant's nutshell argument for idealism
Abstract The significance or vacuity of the statement, “Everything has just doubled in size,” attracted considerable attention last century from scientists and philosophers. Presenting his conventionalism in geometry, Poincaré insisted on the emptiness of a hypothesis that all objects have doubled in size overnight.
Desmond Hogan
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Abstract Neo‐Aristotelian views of goodness hold that the goodness of something is strictly connected with its goal(s). In this article, I shall present a power‐based, Neo‐Aristotelian view of goodness. I shall claim that there are certain powers (i.e., Goodness‐Conferring Powers, or GC‐powers in short) that confer goodness upon their bearers and upon ...
Michele Paolini Paoletti
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Alternatives to neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics [PDF]
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.
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CONFUCIANISM AND VIRTUE ETHICS: STILL A FLEDGLING IN CHINESE AND COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY [PDF]
The past couple of decades have witnessed a remarkable burst of philosophical energy and talent devoted to virtue ethical approaches to Confucianism, including several books, articles, and even high-profile workshops and conferences that make connections
Tiwald, Justin
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A basic challenge to naturalistic moral realism is that, even if moral properties existed, there would be no way to naturalistically represent or track them.
Bloomfield, Paul
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Early Modern Political Philosophies and the Shaping of Political Economy [PDF]
In the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the paradigm of a new science, political economy, was established. It was a science distinct from the Aristotelian sub-disciplines of practical philosophy named oikonomía and politiké, and emphasis
Cremaschi, Sergio Volodia Marcello
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Is Kant's critique of metaphysics obsolete?
Abstract I raise a problem about the possibility of metaphysics originally due to Kant: what explains the fact that the terms in our metaphysical theories (e.g., ‘property’, ‘grounding’) refer to entities and structures (e.g., properties, grounding) in the world?
Nicholas F. Stang
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Abstract The recent translation into English of Klaus Hemmerle's Theses Towards a Trinitarian Ontology has led to a renewed interest in ontology and in the construction of new trinitarian ontologies. In his Theses, Hemmerle argues that a new trinitarian ontology discloses a new order of things: the analogy of Being becomes an analogy of the Trinity.
Teresa Grace Brown
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Do the Virtues Make You Happy? [PDF]
We answer the title question with a qualified “No.” We arrive at this answer by spelling out what the proper place of the concept 'happiness' is in a neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics: (1) Happiness in the sense of personal well-being has only a loose ...
Hlobil, Ulf, Nieswandt, Katharina
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