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From Morality to Virtue
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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.read more
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The question of moral action: a formalist position
TL;DR: This article developed a research position that allows cultural sociologists to compare morality across sociohistorical cases by focusing analytic attention on actions that fulfill the following criteria: (a) actions that define the actor as a certain kind of socially recognized person, both within and across fields; (b) actions actors experience or that they expect others to perceive, as defining the actor both intersituationally and to a greater extent than other available definitions of self; and (c) actions to which actors either have themselves, or expect other to have, a predictable emotional reaction.
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Virtue Ethics and Right Action
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that these accounts are vulnerable to what they call the insularity objection: evaluating action requires attention to worldly consequences external to the agent, whereas virtue ethics is primarily concerned with evaluating an agent's inner states.
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The Ethics of the Node versus the Ethics of the Dyad? Reconciling Virtue Ethics and Contractualism
TL;DR: The authors argue that dyadic and nodal business ethics are complementary approaches that are best used in tandem if we want to identify the generic normative core of the field of business ethics and demonstrate that these dyadic approaches are not competing contenders to the throne of business Ethics.
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Character in learning for life: a virtue-ethical rationale for recent research on moral and values education
James Arthur,David Carr +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw attention to what is probably the largest empirical study of moral, values and character education in the United Kingdom to the present date, and outline a plausible conceptual or theoretical case for placing a particular virtue-ethical concept of character at the centre of contemporary scholarship and research into moral and values education.
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Moral Virtues for Journalists
TL;DR: In this article, an account of virtue ethics applied to the profession of journalism is presented, with an emphasis on the virtues of justice and integrity, and an original account of journalistic virtue ethics is offered.
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A Companion to Bioethics
Helga Kuhse,Peter Singer +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
Graham B. Mcbeath,Stephen Webb +1 more
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.