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Machiavelli’s The Prince: How to Refute Virtue Ethics in Three Steps

open access: yesStudia 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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A personalist versus a rationalist theory of virtues

open access: yesLabyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics, 2018
The purpose of this article is to make visible Max Scheler's great contribution to philosophical research on virtues and values, and to re-integrate it into the current discourse.
Susanne Moser
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Is There a Need for a More Expansive Use of Ethics and Values in Reflecting on the Use of Animals in Scientific Research?

open access: yesAnimals, 2014
Although reflecting a long tradition of moral reflection that the use of animals is acceptable as long as it is humane, the tension between causing harm to animals in research and the benefits to humans can nevertheless be troubling.
Mark W. Fisher
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Thomas Aquinas on the Classification of Virtues [PDF]

open access: yesاخلاق وحیانی, 2014
The Classification of virtues is difficult. The similarities and differences between virtues has made various lists of virtues. Thomas Aquinas, the Catholic Church theologian who has rational concerns about the Christian religion, has offered the ...
Ahmad Reza Meftah
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Character Strengths as Manifestations of Spiritual Life: Realizing the Non-Dual From the Dual

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
There is a noticeable increase in interest in the study of spirituality within the context of positive psychology. A review of the literature shows several parallels between dimensions of spirituality as explored within psychology of religion and ...
Hadassah Littman-Ovadia, Amnon David
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Vulnerability and virtue [PDF]

open access: yesCanadian Medical Association Journal, 2021
Having witnessed scenes of death innumerable times as a critical care physician, this is how I imagine my mother’s death, thousands of miles away: her eyes are sunken and, in the heavy air, her breathing becomes slower and more erratic before it ceases permanently.
Proulx, Catherine   +2 more
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Research in Moral Education: The Contribution of P4C to the Moral Growth of Students

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2020
Moral education and moral growth are very important topics, and have been so as much in the fields of moral psychology and moral education as in the policies of governments and international institutions over the past decades.
Félix García-Moriyón   +6 more
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Inexcusabiles: Salvation and the Virtues of the Pagans in the Early Modern Period

open access: yesCromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, 2022
Review of Alberto Frigo, ed., Inexcusabiles: Salvation and the Virtues of the Pagans in the Early Modern Period (Cham: Springer, 2020) reviewed by Giacomo ...
Giacomo Mariani
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Pursuing the Intrinsic Relationship between Liturgy and Ethics: Practical-Theological Promise in Poverty of Spirit

open access: yesActa Universitatis Carolinae Theologica, 2020
This article examines whether and how sacramental liturgy and the Christian life-ethic are intrinsically related, a fundamental problematic in theory and practice in the decades since Vatican Council II.
Bruce T. Morrill
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Psychotherapy as Ethics

open access: yesPhilosophies, 2023
Talk of matters ethical is, in the psychotherapeutic context, typically relegated to therapy’s preconditions and setting, i.e., to its ‘frame’. What goes on within that frame, i.e., therapeutic action itself, gets theorised in psychological rather than ...
Richard G. T. Gipps
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