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Virtue and medical ethics education
The traditional structure of medical school curriculum in the United States consists of 2 years of pre-clinical study followed by 2 years of clinical rotations.
Will Lyon
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The Soul, the Virtues, and the Human Good: Comments on Aristotle's Moral Psychology
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 Vice of Social Comparison in Kierkegaard: Nature, Religious Moral Psychology, and Normativity
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 Ethicist of the Ideal Type
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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Ethics and the Perfect Moral Law
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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VIRTUE ETHICS AND VIRTUE EPISTEMOLOGY
Abstract:The aim of this essay is to test the claim that epistemologists—virtue epistemologists in particular—have much to learn from virtue ethics. The essay begins with an outline of virtue ethics itself. This section concludes that a pure form of virtue ethics is likely to be unattractive, so the virtue epistemologist should examine the “impure ...
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Virtue-based Approaches to Professional Ethics: a Plea for More Rigorous Use of Empirical Science
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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Erythropoietin administration suppresses hepatic soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) expression, leading to increased CYP‐derived epoxides. This is associated with a shift in hepatic macrophage polarization characterized by reduced M1 markers and increased M2 markers, along with reduced hepatic inflammation, suppressed hepatic lipogenesis, and attenuated ...
Takeshi Goda +12 more
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Real‐World Performance of CSF Kappa Free Light Chains in the 2024 McDonald Criteria
ABSTRACT Objective Kappa free light chains (KFLCs) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) have a similar performance to CSF‐restricted oligoclonal bands (OCB) for multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis. To help with implementation, we set out to resolve several remaining uncertainties: (1) performance in a real‐world cohort and the 2024 McDonald criteria; (2 ...
Maya M. Leibowitz +11 more
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Virtue ethics: Beyond moral theory
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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