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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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The Importance of Roles in the Skill Analogy [PDF]
, 2020 This paper argues for a reinterpretation of the skill analogy in virtue ethics. It argues that the skill analogy should not be understood as proposing that being virtuous is analogous to possessing a practical skill but, rather, as proposing that being ...
Dougherty, Matt
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Interrogating the immune landscape of microsatellite stable RAS‐mutated colon cancer
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.COLOSSUS project RAS‐mutated MSS colon cancer study explored transcriptomics and immune cell density by immunohistochemistry (IHC), Immunoscore (IS), ISIC/TuLIS scores, mutation counts, and detected different prevalences but similar microenvironment composition across immune markers with clinical relevance for future immunotherapy combination ...
Rodrigo Dienstmann +61 more
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Virtue ethics and social psychology [PDF]
, 2005 Virtue ethics has emerged as an alternative to deontological and utilitarian theory in recent moral philosophy. The basic notion of virtue ethics is to reassert the importance of virtuous character in ethical judgement in contrast to the emphasis on ...
Lunt, P
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In defence of agent-based virtue ethics [PDF]
, 2005 In 'Against Agent-Based Virtue Ethics' (2004) Michael Brady rejects agent-based virtue ethics on the grounds that it fails to capture the commonsense distinction between an agent's doing the right thing, and her doing it for the right reason. In his view,
van Zyl, Liezl
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Translational cancer research and its implementation through competitively selected Comprehensive Cancer Centers across Europe should be the primary policy focus for addressing the increasing cancer burden in Europe and counteract the present main strategy to convert cancer to a chronic disease.
Manuel Heitor +2 more
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Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2023 This paper covers all main theoretical features of Schopenhauer's ethics (i.e., life satisfaction arising from art, compassion based on virtue of justice or virtue of loving, and compassion leading to asceticism) in an analytical model, it translates ...
Fabio Zagonari
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The Non-Aristotelian Virtue of Truth from the Second-Person Perspective [PDF]
, 2013 The claim has been made that when Aquinas speaks about the virtue of truth and its opposing vices in the Summa theologiae 2-2.109-113, he regards himself as speaking of the same virtue of truth as found in the Nicomachean Ethics 4.7.
Pinsent, Andrew
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.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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Designing Virtuous Sex Robots [PDF]
, 2019 We propose that virtue ethics can be used to address ethical issues central to discussions about sex robots. In particular, we argue virtue ethics is well equipped to focus on the implications of sex robots for human moral character.
Haselager, Pim, Peeters, Anco
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