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Practicing Hope [PDF]

, 2014
In this essay, I consider how the theological virtue of hope might be practiced. I will first explain Thomas Aquinas’s account of this virtue, including its structural relation to the passion of hope, its opposing vices, and its relationship to the ...
DeYoung, Rebecca Konyndyk
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Virtue as the End of Law: An Aretaic Theory of Legislation [PDF]

, 2017
This paper sketches an aretaic theory of legislation. Such a theory posits the flourishing of humans and their communities as the end or telos of law.
Solum, Lawrence B.
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Noen refleksjoner omkring dyder og laster, kvinnelig og mannlig i middelalderens ikonografi

ICO Iconographisk Post, 2014
Title in English: Some Observations on Virtues and Vices, Male and Female in Mediaeval Iconography. – In mediaeval art, personifications of virtues and vices are often represented as women.
Kristin B. Aavitsland
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Populisms and Gender Equality

Sociologica, 2019
A comment on Philippe Schmitter's Essay "The Vices and Virtues of ‘Populisms’" (Sociologica, 13(1), 2019)
Zoe Lefkofridi
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The tragedies of a state dominated political economy: shared vices among the imperial, Derg, and EPRDF regimes of Ethiopia

Development Studies Research, 2020
Conventional accounts of the Ethiopian political economy either neglect the combined effects of shared political vices across various regimes or treat them separately. This essay, based on informed analytical tools of power and property, tends to explore
Wassihun Gebreegizaber Woldesenbet
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The Problem Is Not Populism, but the Failure of Liberal Democracy: Comments on Schmitter's Essay

Sociologica, 2019
A comment on Philippe Schmitter's Essay "The Vices and Virtues of 'Populisms'" (Sociologica, 13(1), 2019)
Gianpaolo Baiocchi
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Attacking Character: Ad Hominem Argument and Virtue Epistemology

Informal Logic, 2010
The recent literature on ad hominem argument contends that the speaker’s character is sometimes relevant to evaluating what she says. This effort to redeem ad hominems requires an analysis of character that explains why and how character is relevant.
Heather Battaly
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Conceptualizing ethnicity and nation building in Malaysia: A lesson from Nigeria [PDF]

, 2010
Conflict of ethnic origin keep presenting its ugly consequences to most of the developing and developed societies, with no much lessons learned. This ethnic conflicts usually starts with a mere complain or grievance that is most of the time ignored ...
Halliru, Tijjani, Ibrahim, Yahya Saleh
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Latin American Philosophers: Some Recent Challenges to Their Intellectual Character

Informal Logic, 2016
For Latin American philosophers, the quality of their own philosophy is a recurrent issue. Why hasn’t it produced any internationally recognized figure, tradition, or movement? Why is it mostly unknown inside and outside Latin America? Although skeptical
Susana Nuccetelli
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“Kierkegaard, Virtues and Vices”: Editorial Introduction

Religions
In recent years, scholars have been divided on what to make of Kierkegaard’s relation to what some have called the virtues tradition [...]
John Lippitt, C. Stephen Evans
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