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SyntheseAbstractBernard Mandeville argued that traits that have traditionally been seen as detrimental or reprehensible, such as greed, ambition, vanity, and the willingness to deceive, can produce significant social goods. He went so far as to suggest that a society composed of individuals who embody these vices would, under certain constraints, be better off
Astola M, Bland S, Alfano M.
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The Review of the Semantics of Moral Virtues and Vices from the Perspective of Allameh Tabatabai [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2022 Moral semantics is one of the topics of moral philosophy that studies the definition of moral concepts, explains the truth, and determines the range of these concepts.
Hossein Ahmadi
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La fausseté des vertus dans Bérénice
Etudes Epistémè, 2021 Bérénice, more than any other play by Racine, has aroused contradictory interpretations because one cannot reach truth about human beings and behaviours in this play, and because the most heroic actions and the most beautiful feelings may be reversed ...
Constance Cagnat-Deboeuf
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Multidimensionalism, Resistance, and The Demographic Problem
European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2023 Linda Martín Alcoff and others have emphasised that the discipline of philosophy suffers from a ‘demographic problem’. The persistence of this problem is partly the consequence of various forms of resistance to efforts to address the demographic problem.
Ian James Kidd
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Machiavelli’s The Prince: How to Refute Virtue Ethics in Three Steps
Studia Philosophiae Christianae, 2023 This article examines Niccolò Machiavelli’s account of virtues in his famous work The Prince. The Italian philosopher uses three different stages or steps of argumentation. All these steps are analyzed in this paper.
Mindaugas Stoškus
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Journal of International Clinical Dental Research Organization, 2022 Background: Effect of tobacco, areca nut, and alcohol consumption (vices) on orthopantomogram (OPG) indices. Aims: To assess the relationship between vices on OPG indices in Indian adult males aged 20–60 years.
Jayant N Palaskar +4 more
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The linguistic metaphors of deafness in Egyptian literary, biographical and medical texts [PDF]
Pražské Egyptologické Studie, 2023 This article examines and explores the attested occurrences of the linguistic metaphors of deafness in the Egyptian literary, biographical and medical texts, with a special examination of their significances and con notations.
Amgad Joseph
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Social Vices: Causes and Counselling Remedies
International Journal of Emerging Research in Engineering, Science, and Management, 2023 Global increase in social problems both reflect and contribute to national and international tensions. The social vices problem is a key concern in many developing countries, where many types of vices are not known.
Sekh Nazimul Islam +2 more
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Vices, Virtues, and Dispositions
TheoLogica, 2023 In this paper, we embark on the complicated discussion about the nature of vice in Virtue Ethics through a twofold approach: first, by taking seriously the claim that virtues (and certain flavours of vices) are genuinely dispositional features possessed
Lorenzo Azzano, Andrea Raimondi
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Correcting Acedia through Wonder and Gratitude
Religions, 2021 In the capital vices tradition, acedia was fought through perseverance and manual labor. In this paper, I argue that we can also fight acedia through practicing wonder and gratitude.
Brandon Dahm
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