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An Approach to ‘Contemporary Communitarianism’ and a Reinterpretation of Its Distinctions from ‘Perfectionism’ in the Perspective on Individual Life [PDF]

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In the final decades of the twentieth century, the emergence of various moral dilemmas and social disorders in Western societies led some contemporary thinkers to confront and oppose the dominant ideological current of these societies—individualist ...
Hossien Rahmatollahi, Ehsan Aghamohammadaghaee, Fatollah hashemy   +2 more
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A Critique of MacIntyrean Morality From a Kantian Perspective

SAGE Open, 2014
This article is a critical examination of MacIntyre’s notion of morality in reference to Kant’s deontological moral theory. The examination shows that MacIntyre (a) criticizes Kant’s moral theory to defend virtue ethics or neo-Aristotelian ethics with a ...
Krishna Mani Pathak
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Freelance Journalists’ Ethical Boundary Settings in Information Work

Nordicom Review, 2013
The borders between the media genres journalism and information or PR are blurring, and this development is especially noticeable among freelance journalists. How does this affect freelance journalists, particularly their ethical reasoning?
Ladendorf Martina
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Aristotelian Naturalism and the Imperfect Project of Normalizing Ethics

Filozofia
In this paper, I claim that the project of recovering an “ethics of normality” not only consists of the attempt to return metaphysical concepts to their everyday meaning but also is dedicated to the goal of developing a theory of the ethically self ...
Martin Hähnel
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Aristotelian Politiké Philía as a Subject of Moral Education

Paedagogia Christiana, 2023
The concept of moral education in Slovakia is currently undergoing a curricular transformation which is connected with issues concerning the theoretical foundation and basic philosophical setting of ethical education.
Andrej Rajský
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Retrieving Your Concepts: Iris Murdoch on Original Sin

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract In The Sovereignty of Good, Iris Murdoch argues that our moral thinking will be impoverished until it possesses a secular conception of original sin. Such a notion would need to remove unacceptable Christian baggage while retaining a genuine claim to be a descendant of the original Christian concept.
Samuel Filby
wiley   +1 more source

‘Theological Metaphysics’ and the Christological Determination of the Principle of Analogy: A Response to John Betz's Christ, the Logos of Creation

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper is a response to John Betz's book, Christ, the Logos of Creation: An Essay in Analogical Metaphysics (Emmaus Academic, 2023). The essay confines itself to answering two methodological questions, namely: Does Przywara's approach to analogy indeed represent the basic form (‘Denkform’) that analogy has ‘always assumed’ in Catholic ...
Archie J. Spencer
wiley   +1 more source

The Cosmos as a World City: A Hylomorphic Foundation for Civic Renewal

Religions
This paper contends that the West’s civic crisis is, at root, a cosmological crisis: civic renewal requires metaphysical repair. It is insufficient to endorse virtue ethics and demand civic virtues without a deeper account of reality that can sustain ...
William M. R. Simpson
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Rethinking Merit in Calvin's Doctrine of the Atonement: Beyond Possessive Individualism

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Joan Lockwood O'Donovan argues that the Reformation doctrine of grace entails a rejection of the proprietary anthropology of self‐owning individuals and its attendant notion of justice – what C. B. Macpherson termed the “theory of possessive individualism.” Although O'Donovan praises Calvin's anthropology and his account of law for its non ...
John Walker
wiley   +1 more source

Is Virtue Good for You?

Journal of Personality, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Does virtue benefit its possessor, or is it beneficial for others but not the self? We tested two highly influential theories that offer contradictory answers. In particular, we focused on three “hard cases” for the theory that virtue promotes well‐being—that is, three virtues that aren't obviously enjoyable (compassion, patience,
Michael M. Prinzing, Merve Balkaya‐Ince, Karen K. Melton, Sarah Schnitker   +3 more
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