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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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Desert, virtue, and justice
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.
Development of an instrument to identify the virtues of expert nursing practice: ‘byrd’s nurses ethical sensitivity test’ (byrd’s nest)
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.
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Speaking of virtue ethics: what has happened to leisure?
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.
Plato's Crito: A Deontological Reading
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply the deontological theories of Immanuel Kant and W. D. Ross to the 'Crito' in an attempt to demonstrate that it has a distinctly duty-based focus that is consistent with the work of Kant and Ross.
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What's Aristotelian about neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethics?
TL;DR: Aristotelian virtue ethics are defined as traits that reliably promote an agent's own flourishing and virtuous actions as the sorts of actions a virtuous agent reliably performs under the relevant circumstances.