The Monist 62 (3):331-350 (1979)
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1. Presumably the point of, say, inculcating a moral outlook lies in a concern with how people live. It may seem that the very idea of a moral outlook makes room for, and requires, the existence of moral theory, conceived as a discipline which seeks to formulate acceptable principles of conduct. It is then natural to think of ethics as a branch of philosophy related to moral theory, so conceived, rather as the philosophy of science is related to science. On this view, the primary topic of ethics is the concept of right conduct, and the nature and justification of principles of behaviour. If there is a place for an interest in the concept of virtue, it is a secondary place. Virtue is a disposition to behave rightly; the nature of virtue is explained, as it were, from the outside in.
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Keywords | Analytic Philosophy Contemporary Philosophy General Interest Philosophy of Mind Philosophy of Science |
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Reprint years | 1998 |
ISBN(s) | 0026-9662 |
DOI | 10.5840/monist197962319 |
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