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Virtue Ethicist of the Ideal Type

Asian Studies
There has been an impressive revival of virtue ethics as a rival to deontology and consequentialism in contemporary Western normative ethics. Correspondingly, many comparative philosophers have shown a great interest in finding virtue ethics potentials ...
Yong HUANG
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The Soul, the Virtues, and the Human Good: Comments on Aristotle's Moral Psychology

Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics, 2016
In modern moral philosophy, virtue ethics has developed into one of the major approaches to ethical inquiry. As it seems, however, it is faced with a kind of perplexity similar to the one that Elisabeth Anscombe has described in Modern moral philosophy ...
Kathi Beier
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The Virtue Return of Contemporary Medical Ethics Education

Yixue yu zhexue
Medical ethics education follows two major approaches: normative ethics and virtue. Breaking through the rigid constraints of normative ethics and promoting its transformation towards virtue-based education is the core path to resolving theoretical and ...
Jialin YAN, Dongju SHI
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Defending the Good Dog Picture of Virtues [PDF]

Organon F, 2020
I consider and reject a specific criticism advanced by Korsgaard against virtue ethics and epistemology when these are conceived with the help of what she calls the image of the “Good Dog.” I consider what virtue ethics and epistemology would look like ...
Andrei Ionuţ Mărăşoiu
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Human and Nature: Developing Virtues for Environmental Responsive Behaviour

Problemy Ekorozwoju, 2023
The environmental issues such as deforestation, climate change, ozone layer depletion, greenhouse effect and pollution of air, water and soil rises due to unethical activity of human beings and behaviour of humankind.
Anita Jena, Sarita Kar
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Ethics and the Perfect Moral Law

Tyndale Bulletin, 2000
This paper examines contemporary virtue ethics and the claim that Christian ethics is a virtue ethic. Three central theses are identified as being central to virtue ethics: a priority thesis, a perfectionist thesis and a communitarian thesis.
Harry Bunting
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The Vice of Social Comparison in Kierkegaard: Nature, Religious Moral Psychology, and Normativity

Religions, 2023
This paper argues for the thesis that social comparison is, for Kierkegaard, a vice. The first part of this article reconstructs Kierkegaard’s understanding of the nature of social comparison.
Wojciech Kaftanski
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Virtue-based Approaches to Professional Ethics: a Plea for More Rigorous Use of Empirical Science

Ethic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy, 2017
Until recently, the method of professional ethics has been largely principle-based. But the failure of this approach to take into sufficient account the character of professionals has led to a revival of virtue ethics.
Georg Spielthenner
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Virtue ethics: Beyond moral theory

South African Journal of Bioethics and Law, 2015
In December 2013, a 52 year old man and a practising Jehovah’s Witness  was admitted to Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital (CHBAH), Soweto, Johannesburg.
Karen Koch, Colin Menezes
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Virtue and Care in Modern Ethics

Relacje Międzykulturowe, 2017
In this paper I compare two contemporary moral theories; virtue ethics and the ethics of care. They both reject traditional ethical positions – Kantian ethics and utilitarianism.
Dariusz Juruś
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