From Morality to Virtue
About: 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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TL;DR: The most constructive response to the crisis in moral theory has been the revival of virtue ethics, an ethics that has the advantages of being personal, contextual, and normative as well.
Abstract: The most constructive response to the crisis in moral theory has been the revival of virtue ethics, an ethics that has the advantages of being personal, contextual, and, as this paper will argue, normative as well. The first section offers a general comparative analysis of Confucian and Whiteheadian philosophies, showing their common process orientation and their views of a somatic self united in reason and passion. The second section contrasts rational with aesthetic order, demonstrating a parallel with analytic and synthetic reason, and showing that rule‐based ethics comes under the former and virtue ethics under the latter. The third and final section discusses a Confucian–Whiteheadian aesthetics of virtue, focusing on love as the comprehensive virtue. The principal goal of the paper is to propose that an appropriation of Confucian virtue ethics will enhance the otherwise slow development of a Euro–American process ethics.
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TL;DR: In this article, a new notion of justice distributive is proposed, adopting an approche aristotelicienne de l'action vertueuse and du vice. But it is not a distributive notion.
Abstract: Critique de la justification des fondements du merite developpee par G. Sher a partir des notions d'action volontaire, de zele et de vertu. Adoptant une approche aristotelicienne de l'action vertueuse et du vice, l'A. propose une nouvelle conception de la justice distributive.
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TL;DR: In this paper, Bloomfield et al. restrían el ambito de investigación en el de las virtudes auto-referentes and otro-ferentes in the etica contemporanea.
Abstract: En caso de enfrentarse con un dilema moral en que se tiene que elegir entre uno mismo y los otros, ?como se debe actuar? ?Nos hemos de favorecer a nosotros mismos o hemos de favorecer a los otros? Para responder a dicha pregunta, se ha restringido el ambito de investigacion en el de las virtudes auto-referentes y otro-referentes en la etica contemporanea. El primer capitulo de la tesis plantea dicha problematica y pone de manifiesto el desacuerdo fundamental imperante sobre la concepcion de la etica, ya identificado por Paul Bloomfield (2008). La mayoria de filosofos contemporaneos presuponen un tipo de etica sin hacer explicita tal posicion ni dar argumentos a su favor. Se estudiaran tres tipos de etica en relacion con su concepcion del alcance de la moral: la etica auto-referente, la otro-referente y la mixta. El segundo capitulo focaliza en la investigacion sobre el tema de las virtudes: se distingue la etica de la virtud de la teoria de la virtud, optando por esta segunda, y se ofrece una definicion de 'virtud'. A continuacion, se estudia el desarrollo historico de las virtudes auto-referentes (self-regarding virtues) y otro-referentes (other-regarding virtues). Posteriormente, se lleva a cabo un estudio conceptual de estos tipos de virtudes, incluyendo tambien las virtudes mixtas (mixed virtues) de la mano de Michael Slote (1992). El tercer capitulo aborda la problematica presentada en el primer capitulo con las herramientas conceptuales desarrolladas en el segundo. Con la teoria de la virtud desarrollada, se analizan las razones que puede haber para defender la etica auto-referente, la otro-referente y la mixta. Tambien se estudian las principales objeciones a las que tienen que hacer frente: el egoismo moral, el auto-sacrificio del agente moral y la imposibilidad de responder a los dilemas morales en que se tiene que elegir entre favorecerse el propio agente moral o favorecer a los otros. Se defiende la superioridad de la etica mixta, aunque no ofrezca una guia directa para la accion en los dilemas morales considerados: recomienda que el agente busque el equilibrio entre las virtudes auto-referentes y las otro-referentes tanto en el dilema mismo como en su contexto y en la vida del agente moral en general. Esto lleva a reconocer la posibilidad que existan dilemas morales tragicamente irresolubles, que pueden ser minimizados, pero no extinguidos, mediante la promocion de la justicia social y de las virtudes en los agentes morales.
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01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: This dissertation aims to demonstrate the efforts towards in-situ applicability of EMMARM, as to provide real-world examples of how the concrete application of EMTs and other post-graduate courses has changed over the years.
Abstract: of a Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Studies Office of The University of Southern Mississippi in Partial Fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that despite the apparent lack of relevancy of leisure to contemporary virtue ethics, it is not inversely true that virtue ethics is irrelevant to leisure studies.
Abstract: Much of the contemporary virtue ethics literature draws upon interpretations of the moral philosophy of the ancients, particularly Aristotle, who discussed virtue ethics primarily in terms of four concepts: arete, phronesis, eudaimonia and, to a lesser degree, schole. However, modern discourse on virtue ethics typically utilizes only three of these concepts in present-day incarnations: virtue, prudence, and happiness. Leisure no longer appears as a required component of virtue ethical thought. The purpose of this paper is two-fold: first, to offer an explanation for leisure’s absence from recent scholarship regarding virtue ethics; and second, to argue that despite the apparent lack of relevancy of leisure to contemporary virtue ethics, it is not inversely true that virtue ethics is irrelevant to leisure studies. Rather, the case will be made that the application of ancient and contemporary accounts of virtue ethics is pertinent to the study of leisure.
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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.
Abstract: A companion to bioethics , A companion to bioethics , کتابخانه مرکزی دانشگاه علوم پزشکی تهران
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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.
Abstract: This paper explores the ways in which student health professionals undergo a transformation in their sense of identity as they engage with caring discourses that underpin healthcare. I argue that caring is a ‘threshold concept’ by virtue of the ‘troublesome knowledge’ with which students are confronted on meeting patients in practice. When superimposed on commonsense understandings of caring, medical connotations of care and moral and ethical dilemmas challenge students to develop their own personal framework within which to operate. I 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. Subsequent positioning in terms of caring discourses forms a facet of the students’ developing identities as healthcare professionals and therefore is a fundamental aspect of professional socialization.
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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".
Abstract: Summary This article argues 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. We review virtue theory’s Aristotelian foundations and criticisms of Kantian and utilitarian theory and show how they apply to social work. Subsequently we offer an account of a virtuebased social work that questions the validity of several models of practice currently fashionable. Virtue theory emphasizes the priority of the individual moral agent who has acquired virtues commensurate with the pursuit of a revisable conception of the good life—the well-being of all in a defined community. The virtues are the acquired inner qualities of humans—character—the possession of which, if applied in due measure, will typically contribute to the realization of the good life or ‘eudaimonia’. The role of the virtuous social worker is shown to be one that necessitates appropriate application of intellectual and practical virtues such as justice, reflection, perception, judgement, bravery, prudence, liberality and temperance. This ‘self-flourishing’ worker,
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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.
Abstract: Virtue ethics is generally recognized as one of the three major schools of ethics, but is often waylaid by utilitarianism and deontology in business and management literature. EBSCO and ABI databases were used to look for articles in the Journal of Citation Reports publications between 1980 and 2011 containing the keywords ‘virtue ethics’, ‘virtue theory’, or ‘virtuousness’ in the abstract and ‘business’ or ‘management’ in the text. The search was refined to draw lists of the most prolific authors, the most cited authors, the most cited articles, and the journals with the most virtue ethics publications. This information allows one to chart how virtue ethics articles have evolved through the decades and to establish ‘schools’ or clusters of authors as well as clusters of themes. The results of this quantitative analysis of authors, ‘schools’, themes, and publications provide a foundation for the future study of virtue ethics in business and management, identifying its achievements and potentials.
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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.
Abstract: This article is about (1) the ancient (Aristotelian) emotional virtue of emulation, (2) some current character‐education inspired accounts of the use of role models in moral education and, most importantly, (3) the potential relevance of (1) for (2). The author argues that the strategy of role‐modelling, 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 emulation; and a substantive moral problem of what precisely should be taught. While the first of these three problems may perhaps be overlooked with impunity, the second and third problems stand in urgent need of rectification if role‐modelling is to retain its moral and educational import. After exploring Aristotle's notion of emulation, the author suggests that this rich and nuanced notion may hold the key to the solution of both problems. Such Aristotelian solutions are then spelled out and defended.
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