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Phronesis as an ideal in professional medical ethics: some preliminary positionings and problematics
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It is argued that to make sense of phronesis as a putative ideal in professional medical ethics—for example, with the further aim of crafting interventions to cultivatephronesis in medical ethics education—the preliminary question of which conception of phronsesis is most serviceable for the aim in question needs to be answered.Abstract:
Phronesis has become a buzzword in contemporary medical ethics. Yet, the use of this single term conceals a number of significant conceptual controversies based on divergent philosophical assumptions. This paper explores three of them: on phronesis as universalist or relativist, generalist or particularist, and natural/painless or painful/ambivalent. It also reveals tensions between Alasdair MacIntyre’s take on phronesis, typically drawn upon in professional ethics discourses, and Aristotle’s original concept. The paper offers these four binaries as a possible analytical framework for classifying and evaluating accounts of phronesis in the medical ethics literature. It argues that to make sense of phronesis as a putative ideal in professional medical ethics—for example, with the further aim of crafting interventions to cultivate phronesis in medical ethics education—the preliminary question of which conception of phronesis is most serviceable for the aim in question needs to be answered. The paper identifies considerable lack of clarity in the current discursive field on phronesis and suggests how that shortcoming can be ameliorated.read more
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The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy.
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Phronesis and the knowledge-action gap in moral psychology and moral education: a new synthesis
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Phronesis (practical wisdom) as a type of contextual integrative thinking
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Teaching Responsible Research and Innovation: A Phronetic Perspective.
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TL;DR: It is argued that the Aristotelian concept of phronesis can capture core properties of the objectives of RRI-related teaching activities and nurture the students’ capacity in terms of practical wisdom, practical ethics, or administrative ability in order to enable them to act virtuously and responsibly in contexts which are often characterized by uncertainty, contention, and controversy.
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Virtue in Medical Practice: An Exploratory Study
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The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy.
Rollo Handy,Peter J. Winch +1 more
TL;DR: The second edition of the Second Edition as mentioned in this paper is a collection of essays about philosophy and social sciences with a focus on the nature of meaningful behaviour and its relationship to the social sciences.