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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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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.
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What Is Dignity
TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of "dignity" is presented as a possible criterion that can serve as a common denominator for weighing or assessing different values or ideals or ideals.
An investigation into the neural substrates of virtue to determine the key place of virtues in human moral development
TL;DR: A prima facie case exists for a profound connection between the physical and rational in the human person as mentioned in this paper... 1.2.3.4.5.6.
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Searching for character and the role of schools
TL;DR: This paper argued that the role of schools in teaching character is limited and argued that such a marriage blurs key distinctions and obscures the centrality of morality to character, and also questionably enlarges the role in character education.
Ethical decision making:eight perspectives on workplace dilemmas
TL;DR: Work is fundamental to all our lives as mentioned in this paper, it is a central arena in which we understand and shape our lives and ourselves, it is also distinctive in kind: most of us work as employees in bureaucratic organisations which divide labour into distinct specialisms, and especially into head (supervisory, planning) and hand (order-following, menial) work.
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Whitehead, Confucius, and the aesthetics of virtue
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.