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From Morality to Virtue

Anita M. Superson
- 01 Jul 1994 - 
- Vol. 20, Iss: 2, pp 221-244
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This article is published in Social Theory and Practice.The article was published on 1994-07-01. It has received 74 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Virtue & Morality.

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Virtue and Care in Modern Ethics

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare two contemporary moral theories, namely, virtue ethics and the ethics of care, and show that the former emphasises the crucial role of individual character in moral life, whereas the latter emphasizes the role of care in human relations.
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Business Innovation Management: a General Overview to Virtuous Leadership

TL;DR: A review of previous studies revealed a gap in the literature on virtuous leadership as mentioned in this paper , and the problem of this study is that virtuous leadership has been examined in primarily ethical literature, and these leadership styles do not extensively define the core characteristics of a virtuous leader.
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Can Strategic Reasoning Alone Account for the Formation of Social Norms

TL;DR: Heath as mentioned in this paper argues that instrumental reason cannot account even for successful monological action and constructs a critical rational theory without much of the problematic addenda that Habermas requires, particularly the need for a tripartite theory of validity claims.
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A Companion to Bioethics

Helga Kuhse, +1 more
TL;DR: A companion to bioethics, A companion to Bioethics as mentioned in this paper, a companion to the bioethic, and a companion of the humanist movement in the 21st century.
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Caring as a ‘threshold concept’: transforming students in higher education into health(care) professionals

TL;DR: The authors argue that caring is a "threshold concept" by virtue of the "troublesome knowledge" with which students are confronted on meeting patients in practice, and suggest a number of ways in which students can be helped to move forward towards or through the threshold to a more cogent understanding of caring.
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Virtue Ethics and Social Work: Being Lucky, Realistic, and not Doing ones Duty

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that in a complex socio-political world, social work ethics needs to re-cast the moral identity of the social worker in terms of virtue ethics, the acquired inner qualities of humans, the possession of which, if applied in due measure, will typically contribute to the realization of the good life or "eudaimonia".
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A quantitative analysis of authors, schools and themes in virtue ethics articles in business ethics and management journals (1980–2011)

TL;DR: In this article, a quantitative analysis of authors, schools, themes, and publications of virtue ethics in business and management literature is presented, with a focus on the most prolific authors, most cited authors, the most cited articles, and journals with the most virtue ethics publications.
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Emulation and the use of role models in moral education

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the strategy of role-modeling, as explicated by the character education movement, is beset with three unsolved problems: an empirical problem of why this method is needed, a methodological problem of how students are to be inspired to emulate, and a substantive moral problem of what precisely should be taught.