Virtue Ethics

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Key works The essential work inspiring much of the virtue ethics tradition is Aristotle & Ostwald 1911.  Many consider David Hume 1751 and Adam Smith 1759) to provide important, sentimentalist virtue ethics in the early modern period.  Contemporary interest in virtue ethics is often traced to Elizabeth Anscombe's [Anscombe 1958: Modern Moral Philosophy 1958.  In the following decades key contemporary works appeared including Foot 1978, Pincoffs 1971, w#, Hursthouse, Slote, Swanton
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  1. The Philosophy of Yin and Yang.Michael Slote - 2018 - Beijing: The Commercial Press.
    Chinese-English bilingual edition -/- In The Philosophy of Yin and Yang, Michael Slote, combined with his proposed moral sentimentalism, conducts an in-depth and illuminating discussion of the traditional Chinese concept of Yin and Yang. In his view, the ancient Chinese concepts of Yin, Yang, and Yin/Yang have profound ideological connotations and philosophical potential. However, in order to fully realize this potential and better integrate Yin and Yang into the discourse of contemporary philosophy, it is necessary to reinterpret it, which is (...)
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  2. Dialogue, Virtue, and Assessment: Teaching for More than Technical Proficiency.Kristopher G. Phillips - 2024 - In Brynn F. Welch, The art of teaching philosophy: reflective values and concrete practices. London: Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 197-207.
    In this chapter I offer advice for how to frame our classes, and by extension our undergraduate degree programs, with the aim of moving beyond mere technical proficiency by re-centering the intellectually and personally transformative potential of teaching philosophy through dialogue. I draw on the growing body of literature discussing intellectual virtues and education, then offer ideas for how we can both assess philosophical skills and meet the lofty ideal that, as Nathan L. King puts it, “you should go to (...)
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  3. The Ontological and Moral Status of Whole Brain Emulations in Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism.Richard Friedrich Runge - 2025 - AI and Ethics.
    The prospect of designing whole brain emulations (WBEs) capable of replicating the phenomenological effects of human brains presents a compelling argument for granting robots that implement such technology a human-like moral status. While deontological and utilitarian perspectives struggle to refute this notion—potentially paving the way for recognizing a utility monster—the article proposes that naturalistic virtue ethics offers a more skeptical stance. Drawing on the metaethical and ontological tenets of neo-Aristotelian naturalism, as articulated by Philippa Foot and Michael Thompson, this article (...)
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  4. How an Ethics of Care Can Transform Corporate Leadership: The Layered Round Table Approach.Larelle Bossi & Lonnie Bossi - 2025 - Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations 28:85-108.
    Since the COVID-19 pandemic, many have argued that we require transformational leadership to help us face the challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4thIR). The authors propose the layered round table approach to be one response to this call to arms. Inspired by the hierarchical, systematised, impersonal, and transactional interactions of the military, the boardroom table (or traditional corporate organisational structures) has largely continued to reflect Max Weber’s bureaucratic theory of management 150 years ago. Whilst the round table has symbolised (...)
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  5. Resetting Machine Ethics: Rationalism, Hypocrisy, Disagreement, and the Skillful-Expert Model.Felix S. H. Yeung & Fei Song - 2025 - In Levi Checketts & Benedict S. B. Chan, Social and Ethical Considerations of AI in East Asia and Beyond. Springer Cham. pp. 161-177.
    Existing approaches to machine ethics harbor an unquestioned commitment to the development of ethical machines and an unreflective optimism that ethical principles can be executable by machines. The first part of this paper raises two challenges to such dogmas: the hypocrisy challenge and the disagreement challenge. The first challenge is that, aside from finding the right machine ethics program, machine ethicists must consider whether their development of such machines is consistent with the precepts of their adopted ethical theory. The second (...)
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  6. The Way Out: Naturalising Art (for a New Mythology).Nat Trimarchi - 2025 - Dissertation, Swinburne University of Technology
    The aim of this thesis is to confront the crisis in art and argument over whether it has lost its way. According to Friedrich Schelling, the ‘modern mythology’, bolstered by the onset of Christianity, is responsible for generating ‘aesthetic privation’ producing a joint crisis of meaning for humanity and art. Their artificial historicising, at the root of this, began with overturning the ‘ancient mythology’ in which art was a unified principle integrally linked to both Nature and History via the Person. (...)
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  7. Action‐based Benevolence.Waldemar Brys - 2025 - European Journal of Philosophy.
  8. Action‐based Benevolence.Waldemar Brys - 2025 - European Journal of Philosophy:1-16.
    This paper raises a new problem for the widely held view that, according to the Confucian philosopher Mencius, being a benevolent person necessarily entails being affectively disposed in morally relevant ways. I argue that ascribing such a view to Mencius generates an inconsistent triad with two of his central philosophical commitments on what it means to be a benevolent ruler. I then consider possible ways of resolving the triad and I argue that the most attractive option is to reject the (...)
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  9. Towards A Skillful-Expert Model for Virtuous Machines.Felix S. H. Yeung & Fei Song - 2025 - American Philosophical Quarterly 62 (2):153-171.
    While most contemporary proposals of ethics for machines draw upon principle-based ethics, a number of recent studies attempt to build machines capable of acting virtuously. This paper discusses the promises and limitations of building virtue-ethical machines. Taking inspiration from various philosophical traditions—including Greek philosophy (Aristotle), Chinese philosophy (Zhuangzi), phenomenology (Hubert and Stuart Dreyfus) and contemporary virtue theory (Julia Annas)—we argue for a novel model of machine ethics we call the “skillful-expert model.” This model sharply distinguishes human virtues and their machine (...)
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  10. Les neurotechnologies peuvent-elles contribuer au progrès moral ?Annie Hourcade Sciou - 2024 - In Amandine Cayol, Bénédicte Bévière-Boyer, Wei Wang & Émilie Gaillard, Le transhumanisme à l'ère de la médecine améliorative. Le Kremlin-Bicêtre: Mare & Martin. pp. 171-179.
    Selon l’éthique des vertus, le bonheur est la visée de la vie morale et peut être compris en termes d’accomplissement de soi par l’individu au sein du collectif. Chacun est l’artisan de son propre caractère. Le vertueux sera celui qui aura progressivement et durablement enraciné en lui la vertu en agissant de manière vertueuse, celui qui saura comment, en toute circonstance, agir de manière morale, parce qu’il aura développé ses capacités de délibération, de jugement et de compréhension d’une situation donnée, (...)
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  11. Just a game that children play: A Kantian Framework on dignity and the disadvantaged in Philippine game shows.Rodrigo Emil Carreon - 2025 - International Journal of Research Studies in Education 14 (4):119 - 128.
    The existence of game shows in the Philippines is ascertained and examined under the Kantian Deontology. In a more popular view, game shows provide a type of enjoyment that is not only felt by the viewers or spectators, but rather those who are able to be fortunate enough to receive prizes given by such activities. On the onset, the opus presents the conditions of the game shows in the Philippines and that of the other countries in a comparative light. This (...)
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  12. Tools of war and virtue–Institutional structures as a source of ethical deskilling.S. Hovd - 2023 - Frontiers in Big Data 5.
    Shannon Vallor has raised the possibility of ethical deskilling as a potential pitfall as AI technology is increasingly being developed for and implemented in military institutions. Bringing the sociological concept of deskilling into the field of virtue ethics, she has questioned if military operators will be able to possess the ethical wherewithal to act as responsible moral agents as they find themselves increasingly removed from the battlefield, their actions ever more mediated by artificial intelligence. The risk, as Vallor sees it, (...)
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  13. From Virtue to Duty: Xunzi’s Gong-Yi 公義 and the Institutionalization of Public Obligation in Early Confucianism.Yijia Huang - 2025 - Religions 16 (3):268.
    This paper challenges the conventional view that pre-Qin Confucianism represents kingly virtue politics that lacks institutional duty. By interpreting Xunzi’s notion of yi 義, particularly gong-yi 公義, as a form of public obligation, I show that Xunzi exposes yi to state institutions to oblige people to serve public ends. While institutional duty is often associated with post-Enlightenment political philosophy, this paper argues that Xunzi’s philosophy offers a comparable framework of public–private exchange. Xunzi’s gong-yi may be a public-servicing sense of duty (...)
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  14. Rethinking Self-Control.Matthew C. Haug - 2025 - New York: Routledge.
    Research on self-control in both philosophy and psychology is thriving. Yet, despite a wealth of recent philosophical work on the exercise of self-control, there has been surprisingly little empirically informed work in philosophy on self-control as a psychological trait. This book aims to fill this gap. -/- There is abundant evidence that self-control is beneficial both to those who have it and to the societies in which they live. This book shows that the neo-Aristotelian framework for understanding self-control-related traits, which (...)
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  15. Virtue is Not a Simple Best : Moral Space , Ethical Space ; Evaluating a Best among Bests.Jacob Parr - manuscript
    Virtue discussed . A definitive definition for what constitutes a nonethical action. A definitive definition for what constitutes an immoral action. The author brings attention to Aristotle’s ironic writing .
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  16. The Good Life and How to Live It: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book I.Robert Weston Siscoe - 2025 - The Philosophy Teaching Library.
    In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle considers what it takes to achieve happiness or eudaimonia. And when Aristotle talks about eudaimonia, he has a broader concept in mind than just a particular emotional state. He wants to know, not what makes us psychologically happy, but what makes us flourish. In Book I, he argues that flourishing is not found in pleasure, fame, or wealth, but rather in living in accordance with virtue, setting the stage for a deeper discussion of virtue in (...)
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  17. Dennis L. Krebs, Survival of the Virtuous: How We Became a Moral Animal[REVIEW]Michael T. Dale - 2025 - The Philosophical Review 134 (1):96-100.
    In his book Survival of the Virtuous, Dennis Krebs explores the origins of human morality. His approach is decidedly evolutionary. Indeed, he contends that the key to understanding our moral nature is considering the adaptive functions of our moral traits. He does acknowledge the importance of cultural and psychological explanations in filling in some of the particulars, but he argues that such accounts can only get us so far if we want to understand the ultimate underpinnings of morality. We are (...)
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  18. Action-based Benevolence.Waldemar Brys - 2025 - European Journal of Philosophy:1-16.
    This paper raises a new problem for the widely held view that, according to the Confucian philosopher Mencius, being a benevolent person necessarily entails being affectively disposed in morally relevant ways. I argue that ascribing such a view to Mencius generates an inconsistent triad with two of his central philosophical commitments on what it means to be a benevolent ruler. I then consider possible ways of resolving the triad and I argue that the most attractive option is to reject the (...)
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  19. Understanding Anscombe’s Absolutism.Marshall Bierson - 2024 - In Nathan Hauthaler & Nicholas Ogle, Anscombe and the Anscombe Archive. Philadelphia, PA: Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture. pp. 97-120.
  20. Characterizing Digital Design: A Philosophical Approach.Christopher Quintana - 2024 - Dissertation, Villanova University
    In this dissertation, I investigate the resources for Neo-Aristotelian moral philosophy to address social and ethical issues that arise in the use of technologies that rely on digital environments. The theoretical underpinnings of this dissertation represent efforts from contemporary philosophers to re-engineer the theories of Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle for the present. I offer my own contribution to this tradition in the context of the ethics and philosophy of technology. I aim to answer the following question: what moral and social (...)
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  21. Learning From Anishinaabe Principles of Relationality, Process, and Reciprocity to Expand the Reach of Positive Psychology and Address Loneliness.Jenae Nelson, Anne Jeffrey, Michael Ferguson & Sarah Schnitker - 2025 - International Journal for Applied Positive Psychology 10 (26).
    This paper reflects on the contrast between the individualistic philosophical underpinnings of positive psychology and the relational underpinnings of a particular indigenous philosophical framework: that of Anishinaabe (North American Indigenous peoples) philosophy. The salience of the global loneliness epidemic and the fact that positive psychology, constrained by its existing assumptions, has struggled to address it effectively make such an exploration of alternatives timely (Van Zyl et al., 2023). Traditional positive psychological tools may be iatrogenic by perpetuating an isolated view of (...)
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  22. KENP và quá trình tiêu thụ tri thức giữa hai ngày cuối năm âm và dương.Nguyễn Minh Hoàng - 2025 - 1 Million Kenp.
    Người Việt Nam đón năm mới theo lịch âm, vì vậy ngoài việc đón năm mới theo lịch dương giống nhiều quốc gia khác, Việt Nam còn chào đón năm mới lần hai, thường rơi vào khoảng một tháng sau đó. Trong thời gian này, các hoạt động công việc thường bị chậm lại do khoảng cách giữa hai kỳ nghỉ lễ tạo ra một “độ ì” đáng kể. Tuy nhiên, qua số liệu theo dõi KENP, chúng tôi nhận thấy (...)
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  23. Les six piliers de la Sagesse.Paul Franceschi - 2025 - Seattle (USA): KDP.
    Dans cet ouvrage, Paul Franceschi propose une méthode novatrice pour aborder et résoudre les conflits de valeurs. Il guide pas-à-pas le lecteur à travers l’analyse de nombreuses situations, représentatives des types de conflits de valeurs les plus courants. il présente des stratégies adaptées, issues de l'analyse logique de ces situations. Chaque cas est exploré en détail, avec des exemples tirés de la vie quotidienne, d’événements historiques et de la littérature mondiale. Rédigé dans un style clair et accessible, ce livre ne (...)
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  24. The Good Life and the Good State.Katharina Nieswandt - 2025 - London and New York: Anthem Press.
    There is no good human life outside of a state, and the good state enables us to live well together – so says Constitutivism, the theory developed in this book. Reinvigorating Aristotelian ideas, the author asks in what sense citizens of modern, populous and pluralistic societies share a common good. -/- While we can easily find examples of cooperation that benefit each member, such as insurances, the idea that persons could share a common good became puzzling with modernity – a (...)
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  25. Education, A Thin Concept with A Thick Skin: What Do Supervillains and Anti-Heroes Teach Us About Virtuous Action-Guidedness?Shadi Heidarifar - forthcoming - Episteme:1-19.
    Education as a Thick Epistemic Concept (ETEC) is a thick epistemology project that highlights the role of education in both epistemic virtues acquirement and motivation. In this paper, I argue that ETEC is not satisfactory because it relies on a version of Virtue Responsibilism (VR) that is also not plausible, in so far as it relies on the premise that both the motivation and the action-guidedness of epistemic and moral virtues are unified. By rejecting this unification premise, I show that (...)
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  26. Confucian Harmony, Civility and the Echo Chamber.Kyle van Oosterum - forthcoming - Journal of Applied Philosophy.
    How should we interact with people in echo chambers? Recently, some have argued that echo-chambered individuals are not entitled to civility. Civility is the virtue whereby we communicate respect for persons to manage our profound disagreements with them. But for civil exchanges to work, people must trust one another and their testimony. Therefore, some argue, we can be moderately uncivil towards those in echo chambers who are unlikely to trust our attempts to be civil. I argue against this position. I (...)
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  27. The Apparent Disunity of Virtue.Charles Starkey & Cynthia L. S. Pury - 2025 - In Blaine J. Fowers, The Virtue of Courage. Oxford University Press.
    Though courage is widely regarded as a core virtue there is controversy over what kinds of acts are courageous. Moreover, some see courageous acts as necessarily good, whereas others believe that some acts can be both courageous and bad. We examine this disagreement and argue that it largely rests on two sorts of confusion or misunderstanding. We examine this disagreement and argue that it largely rests on two sorts of confusion or misunderstanding. One regards differences in the descriptor under which (...)
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  28. Courage Interventions: Future Directions and Cautions.Cynthia L. S. Pury & Charles Starkey - 2014 - In Stephen Schueller & Acacia Parks, The Handbook of Positive Psychological Interventions. Wiley Blackwell. pp. 168-178.
  29. Character and Emotion.Charles Starkey - 2015 - In Christian B. Miller, R. Michael Furr, Angela Knobel & William Fleeson, Character: New Perspectives in Psychology, Philosophy, and Theology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pp. 192-211.
    Despite the tremendous growth of interest in both emotion and character in recent years, little has been said about the relation between the two. I argue that emotions have a proximal and fundamental role in determining character. The proximal role consists in the effects of emotion on the way that a person perceives and ensuingly cognizes the object of emotion. This plays a significant part in determining character-relevant actions. The fundamental role consists in the function that emotions have in sustaining (...)
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  30. Review of David. E. Cooper, Pessimism, Quietism, and Nature as Refuge. [REVIEW]Ian James Kidd - forthcoming - Religious Studies.
  31. Engineering ethics education through a critical view.Cristiano Cordeiro Cruz, Aline Medeiros Ramos & Jie Gao - 2025 - In Shannon Chance, Tom Børsen, Diana Adela Martin, Roland Tormey, Thomas Taro Lennerfors & Gunter Bombaerts, The Routledge international handbook of engineering ethics education. New York, NY: Routledge. pp. 149-164.
    This chapter delves into the intricate relationships among engineering, technology, ethics, and morality, highlighting their interconnected nature as they shape and are shaped by individual and collective human existence. Exploring the profound philosophical and religious underpinnings that underlie ethical and moral contemplation, the chapter also introduces seven distinct ethical systems, emphasizing three non-Western paradigms: South American Buen Vivir, African Ubuntu, and Asian Confucianism. These ethical systems are examined in the context of their implications for technology and engineering. This exposition illuminates (...)
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  32. Virtuous People and Moral Reasons.Julia Annas - 2024 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 27 (5):681-692.
    Do we have a unified pre-theoretical concept of _morality_? This paper makes a start on the larger argument that we do not, by countering criticisms of virtue ethics on the ground that it does not adequately capture such a pre-theoretical concept. One criticism is discussed and met, namely that the reasons on which virtuous people act fail to have the special force of _moral_ reasons.
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  33. Neighborliness and Hospitality.Brandon Warmke - 2024 - Cosmos + Taxis 12 (11+12):26-31.
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  34. Kant on the "Duties of Virtue"--A response to Alasdair Macintyre's critique of Kant's ethics.Ming-Huei Lee - 2016 - EurAmerica 46 (2):211-241.
    In his masterpiece, After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre criticizes Kant's ethics from a virtue ethical perspective, making reference to the "ethic of rules," "rigorism," "formalism," as well as his "inadequate conception of human reason." However, Onora O'Neill, Marcia W. Baron, and Nafsika Athanassoulis point out that MacIntyre's critique of Kant's ethics is based on a partial understanding of Kant's ethical works and suffers from his neglect of Kant's later work Metaphysical First Principles of the Doctrine of Virtue (1797), which misshapes his (...)
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  35. Love, Freedom, and Resentment.Samuel Lundquist - 2023 - Dissertation, University of Virginia
    In recent decades, P. F. Strawson’s “Freedom and Resentment” (1962) has had an enormous influence on philosophical views of moral responsibility. Many contemporary views follow Strawson in centering questions of responsibility on the appropriateness of certain attitudes in our interpersonal relations, especially attitudes of blame and anger, rather than on the abstract nature of free will. Strawson’s influence has in many ways been beneficial, but the prevailing Strawsonian views have taken on some of the more dubious tendencies of contemporary moral (...)
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  36. Variations in Virtue Phenomenology.Sabrina Little - 2024 - Journal of Value Inquiry 58 (4):681-700.
    The virtue development literature often draws on the language of goal-directed automaticity and flow states in discussions of virtue. This article examines the attentional features of various virtues and argues that only some virtuous actions can be adequately described in these terms. It proposes a distinction between three kinds of virtuous actions—flow state actions, deliberative actions, and presence actions—which have varying attentional features, bodily reliance, and conscious reasoning in virtue performance. Then the article motivates these distinctions as important, describing how (...)
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  37. Roger Scruton’s theory of the imagination and aesthetics as a formulation of Aristotelian virtue ethics.Jack Haughton - 2024 - History of European Ideas 50 (7):1278-1293.
    Scholars who mention the turn to Aristotelian virtue ethics in the Mid-Twentieth Century tend to cite G. E. M. Anscombe’s famous ‘complaint’, and sometimes Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue. It is less usual to write of Roger Scruton. Placed in the context of Bernard Williams and John Casey’s works – at the intersection of moral philosophy and the philosophy of the emotions – Scruton’s theory of the imagination is shown to concern the rationality of moral attitudes. In short, it concerns virtue (...)
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  38. Kantian Ethics Concerning the Respect.Can Okan - 2024 - Kaygı, Bursa Uludağ University Faculty of Arts and Sciences Journal of Philosophy 23 (3):296-308.
    This article will be based on the concept of respect which is one of the keystone concepts of moral philosophy by Immanuel Kant who is one of the most important philosophers of the history. The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and Critique of Practical Reason by Kant will be the works to be based on throughout the article. The form of morality of the human who is a social being will be considered by means of the concepts of respect (...)
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  39. Love First.P. Quinn White - forthcoming - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
    How should we respond to the humanity of others? Should we care for others’ well-being? Respect them as autonomous agents? Largely neglected is an answer we can find in the religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Buddhism: we should love all. This paper argues that an ideal of love for all can be understood apart from its more typical religious contexts and moreover provides a unified and illuminating account of the the nature and grounds of morality. I defend a novel (...)
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  40. Tusian Perfectionism.Reza Hadisi - forthcoming - The Journal of Ethics:1-23.
    I offer a reconstructive reading of Ṭūsī’s (1201-1274) account of natural goodness in the Naserian Ethics. I show that Ṭūsī’s version of Aristotelian ethics is especially well-suited to accommodate an intuition that is hard to integrate into a theory of natural goodness: human good is nobler or more elevated than animal and vegetative goods. To do this, I analyze Ṭūsī’s discussion of the relationship between different kinds of perfection from non-living material compounds to vegetative, animal, human, and divine beings. I (...)
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  41. Moral judgement: an introduction through Anglo-American, German and French philosophy.Étienne Brown - 2022 - Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
    This book is the first to introduce readers to contemporary philosophical works on moral judgement stemming from France, Germany and the Anglo-American world – many of which remain untranslated. By integrating Kantian and Aristotelian reflections on this subject, the author combines historiography and critical reflection to offer a rich picture of what it means to make good moral decisions. As both Kantians and Aristotelians argue, moral judgements are ultimately grounded in the normativity of practical identities. Thus, it is by identifying (...)
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  42. AI and society: a virtue ethics approach.Mirko Farina, Petr Zhdanov, Artur Karimov & Andrea Lavazza - 2024 - AI and Society 39 (3):1127-1140.
    Advances in artificial intelligence and robotics stand to change many aspects of our lives, including our values. If trends continue as expected, many industries will undergo automation in the near future, calling into question whether we can still value the sense of identity and security our occupations once provided us with. Likewise, the advent of social robots driven by AI, appears to be shifting the meaning of numerous, long-standing values associated with interpersonal relationships, like friendship. Furthermore, powerful actors’ and institutions’ (...)
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  43. Leibniz as a virtue ethicist.Hao Dong - 2024 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 109 (2):505-527.
    In this paper I argue that Leibniz's ethics is a kind of virtue ethics where virtues of the agent are explanatorily primary. I first examine how Leibniz obtained his conception of justice as a kind of love in an early text, Elements of Natural Law. I show that in this text Leibniz's goal was to find a satisfactory definition of justice that could reconcile egoism with altruism, and that this was achieved through the Aristotelian virtue of friendship where friends treat (...)
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  44. The Virtue of Religion and the Act of Doing Sacred Theology.David Francis Sherwood - 2024 - The Downside Review.
    In the theological tradition of St. Thomas Aquinas, this paper will argue that the practical actions of studying, contemplation, and teaching sacred theology are acts proper to the infused Christian virtue of religion. To understand this, the framework of Thomistic moral theology and anthropology is necessary. After introducing this background, St. Thomas’s understanding of the virtue of justice is explained alongside the virtue of religion, which is a potential part of this cardinal virtue. The second part of the paper moves (...)
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  45. Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism as a Metaethical Route to Virtue-Ethical Longtermism.Richard Friedrich Runge - 2025 - Moral Philosophy and Politics 12 (1):7-32.
    This article proposes a metaethical route from neo-Aristotelian naturalism, as developed in particular by Philippa Foot, to virtue-ethical longtermism. It argues that the metaethical assumptions of neo-Aristotelian naturalism inherently imply that a valid description of the life-form of a species must satisfy a formal requirement of internal sustainability. The elements of a valid life-form description then serve as a normative standard. Given that humans have the ability to influence the fate of future generations and know about their influence, this article (...)
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  46. Bene comune, fondamenti e pratiche.Francesco Botturi & Angelo Campodonico (eds.) - 2015 - Milan: Vita e pensiero.
    The book concerns the topic of the common good (bonum commune).
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  47. Tommaso e l'etica analitica.Angelo Campodonico - 2014 - In Paolo Bettineschi & Riccardo Fanciullacci, Tommaso d’Aquino e i filosofi analitici. Napoli: Orthotes. pp. 27-51..
    The article concerns the influence of Thomas Aquinas' ethics on the ethics of contemporary analytical philosophy.
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  48. I presupposti di un'etica delle virtù.Angelo Campodonico - 2017 - In Francesco Botturi, Paolo Gomarasca, Giacomo Samek Lodovici & Paolo Monti, Critica della ragione generativa. Milano: Vita e pensiero.
    The article concerns the anthropological presuppositions of Virtue Ehics.
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  49. Human Limitedness and the Virtues.Ian James Kidd - 2024 - Cosmos and Taxis 12 (11-12):19-25.
    An essay review of David McPherson's book "The Virtues of Limits". After summarising the main claims, I suggest some points of contact with the Buddhist and Confucian traditions. I then argue that McPherson should draw out the pessimism latent in his discussion, and be more sympathetic to varieties of moral quietism.
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  50. Dalla phronesis di Aristotele alla prudentia di Tommaso d'Aquino.Angelo Campodonico - 2009 - In Walter Lapini, Luciano Malusa, Letterio Mauro & A. M. Battegazzore, Gli antichi e noi: scritti in onore di Antonio Mario Battegazzore. Genova: G. Brigati. pp. 511-524.
    The article concerns the relationship between the concept of phronesis in Aristotle and that of prudentia in Thomas Aquinas.
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