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Aristotelský argument z ergon a současné teorie ctností
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
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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An Approach to ‘Contemporary Communitarianism’ and a Reinterpretation of Its Distinctions from ‘Perfectionism’ in the Perspective on Individual Life [PDF]
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 +2 more
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A Critique of MacIntyrean Morality From a Kantian Perspective
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
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
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
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
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
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The Cosmos as a World City: A Hylomorphic Foundation for Civic Renewal
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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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
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