Notes
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Terence Irwin trans. (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1985), p. 6.
See Felix Grayeff, Aristotle and his School (New York: Harper & Row, 1974), pp. 42–43.
Rosalind Hursthouse, On Virtue Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 8.
Ibid., p. 14.
John McDowell, “Virtue and Reason,” in Mind, Value and Reality (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998), p. 57–58.
Ibid., pp. 71.
Hursthouse, p. 167.
Ibid., p. 171.
Ibid., p. 175.
See Lawrence J. Walker and Karl H. Hening, “Parenting Style and the Development of Moral Reasoning,” Journal of Moral Education 28, 1999.
John McDowell, “The Role of Eudaimonia in Aristotle’s Ethics,” in Mind, Value and Reality (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998) pp. 16–17.
Hursthouse, p. 185.
Ibid., p. 184.
Ibid., p. 185.
Ibid., pp. 184–185.
Eamonn Callan, “Autonomy, Child-Rearing and Good Lives,” in The Moral and Political Status of Children, David Archard and Colin M. McLeod, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), p. 125.
Aristotle, op. cit., p. 14.
Ibid., pp. 39–40.
See Aristotle, op. cit., pp. 85–90, 108–109, 93–97.
See Adam Swift, How Not To Be a Hypocrite (London: Routledge, 2003), pp. 106–109.
See Robin S. Downie and Fiona Randall, “Parenting and the Best Interests of Minors,” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 22 (1997), p. 223.
Aristotle, op. cit., p. 3.
Terence Irwin, Plato’s Ethics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 69.
I would like to thank Eva Dadlez, Jon Cogburn, Heidi Silcox, an anonymous referee and Thomas Magnell, Editor-in Chief of the Journal of Value Inquiry, and the students in my Ethical Theory classes at the University of Central Oklahoma, for helpful suggestions and conversation.
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Silcox, M. The Virtuous Parent. J Value Inquiry 44, 499–508 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-010-9236-y
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