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In Defence of Nudging from a Virtue Ethics Perspective

Conatus - Journal of Philosophy
Nudging is typically understood as a design intended to influence the behaviour or choices of decision-makers to promote their own or other stakeholders’ welfare by steering choices in beneficial directions without restricting their freedom of choice ...
Ritesh Bansal, Joby Varghese
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Yes, Friendship and Love Can Be Bought and Sold

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 549-569, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Can friendship and love be bought and sold? I argue yes, contrary to philosophical consensus. The prevailing view rests on the common error of over‐reliance on idealized conceptions of friendship and love that bear little resemblance to actual relationships.
Simone Sommer Degn
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Other Selves [PDF]

Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy, 2010
In this paper, I will be comparing two arguments forwarded byAristotle in Book IX of the Nicomachean Ethics that dealt with friendship. I believe that, by analyzing side by side the two arguments, we shall have a general understanding how Aristotle’s ...
Efren A. Alverio
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Księga Arystotelesa o dyspozycjach dianoetycznych (intelektualnych) „Etyka nikomachejska” VI

Filozofia Publiczna i Edukacja Demokratyczna, 2019
The article concerns book VI of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics on the integrated approach to the dianoetic (intellectual) dispositions in the field of thinking, action and production, with the leading con-cept of phronesis as practical wisdom. We propose
Marian Andrzej Wesoły
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Virtue ethics and the commitment to learn: overcoming disparities faced by transgender individuals

Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 2019
The purpose of this paper is to utilize virtue ethics as the appropriate paradigm by which to improve health care delivery to transgender individuals.
Jennifer Markusic Wimberly
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Conscientious Objection Based on Patient Identity

Voices in Bioethics, 2022
Photo by Cecilie Johnsen on Unsplash INTRODUCTION Across the country, states are enacting legislation that curtails LGBTQ+ rights and liberties.[1] In March 2021, Arkansas enacted Senate Bill 289, titled the Medical Ethics and Diversity Act (the ...
John Dinelli
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The problem of free will is child's play

Philosophical Investigations, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 147-154, April 2026.
Abstract I argue that the essence of ‘free will’ is control, the ability to do otherwise and that this ability is an acquired skill: We can and do see people acquire it, as for example small children learn to play and to do all the other things that human agents characteristically do.
Sophie‐Grace Chappell
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Understanding Aristotle's Notion of the Mean: A Case Study in Anger

Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics, 2019
In this paper, I argue that purely quantitative understandings of Aristotle's concept of "the mean" (as presented in Nicomachean Ethics) are oversimplified, and I make this argument by analyzing the particular emotion of anger.
Heather Stewart
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Handling Everyday Life: An Analysis of Ordinary Acting

Theoria, Volume 92, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT What does it mean to shape one's own everyday life and to be the author of one's ordinary acting with all its repetitions, anchored habits and well‐known practices? In this paper, I argue that moral philosophy should pay more attention to human agency in quotidian contexts.
Johannes Müller‐Salo
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Happiness and knowledge in some Masters of Arts before 1250. An analysis of some commentaries on the Book I of Nicomachean Ethics

Patristica et Mediaevalia, 2004
The masters of Arts were immersed in an incredibly rich intellectual environment from which they took many tools but to which they also contributed. Although they cultivated the literal genre of commentary it does not mean that they only repeated the ...
Valeria Buffon
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