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Showing 1 to 20 of 1006 for “"Virtue."”.
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Moral worth, virtue, and accidentally right action : towards a virtue first approach.
… between morally worthy action and action from virtue has remained largely unexplored and undeveloped. In this dissertation, I first argue against a way of thinking about the relationship that is often assumed, however implicitly. The Standard View—the thesis that virtue is the stable …
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Virtue and self-interest
… of flourishing (as commonly associated with virtue ethics). Ultimately I tread a path between the consequentialist and elevationist positions. While I do not elevate self-interest to acting virtuously I do contend that an egoist must adopt certain virtues if that egoist is to have the best …
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Reforming Virtue: Bavinck's Method of Engaging with Virtue Ethics from a Reformed Perspective
… scholarship in the study of, among other things, virtue ethics. This thesis attempts to demonstrate that Herman Bavinck’s four pillars of reformed dogmatics allows reformed ethicists to robustly engage in the study of virtue ethics. In chapter 1, I describe the nature and impact of the widening …
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Virtue Ethics and Corporate Governance
… Kantian ethics, utilitarianism and Aristotelian virtue theory (AVT). Such issues have implications primarily for the influence of leaders’ personal ethics in the context of corporate governance failure and whether AVT in particular can contribute to the achievement of best-practice governance. …
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Grounding the theory of virtue.
… contending paradigms, a pre-modern theory of virtue is shown to hold promising characteristics for addressing the present gaps while resolving the shortcomings of the dominant paradigm. This research attempts to answer the following question: How, if at all, does Aristotle's theory of virtue …
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The structure of virtue ethics.
Virtue ethics is the view that virtue, happiness, flourishing, and human nature go together to constitute the core of ethics. However, this definition is far from precise. It raises questions about the foundation of virtue ethics, the logical relations between its main concepts (its "structure"), …
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Medical Virtue in Contemporary Practice: Has COVID-19 Reawakened Virtue in the Modern Medical Encounter?
… that incorporates Aristotelean ideals of virtue. The discussion shows that virtuous practice requires much more than following declarations of medical professionalism found in organizational charters—it requires a more humanistic approach suitable to address the complexity of the patient …
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The virtue of Bonhoeffer's ethics: a study of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Ethics in relation to virtue ethics
Jennifer Moberly, 'The Virtue of Bonhoeffer's Ethics: A Study of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Ethics in Relation to Virtue Ethics' (PhD, 2009) This study first explores the prima facie reasons for rejecting the possibility of seeing a close relationship between Bonhoeffer's Ethics and virtue ethics. …
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Environmental Virtue Education: Ancient Wisdom Applied
… I claim that a theory of environmental virtue ethics can circumvent many of the difficulties arising from the language of rights, duties, and moral claims by emphasizing the cultivation of certain dispositions in the individual moral agent. In this thesis, I examine the advantages of …
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The Greek sophists : teachers of virtue
… the Greek sophists as teachers of <i>aretê</i> (virtue or human excellence) and a study of the conflict between sophistic and Socratic political values as portrayed in the dialogues of Plato. The first section offers a new definition of the term "sophist" based on ancient sources and attempts to …
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Virtue: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
… of Woman; by the idea that her beliefs about virtue and freedom drove her forward through her own life; by the needs of narrative structure and the challenges and opportunities of the film form; by her works, her letters, and Godwin's Memoir; and by my own admitted desire to portray her life …
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Altruism and Civic Virtue Phenomenology Study
… Behavior (OCB), specifically altruism and civic virtue. The first chapter is the introductory chapter containing the statement of the problem, purpose of the study, research question, aim of the DIP, definition of relevant terms, and methodological overview. The second chapter is the literature …
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A Thomistic principle of virtue individuation.
… to the need for a principal approach to virtue individuation. When we individuate virtues, we answer questions about the number of human virtues that exist and the ways in which they differ from one another. Most contemporary moral philosophers answer these questions in a haphazard way -- …
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Psychology and Virtue Epistemology: Three Studies
… will lend significant support to the idea that virtue epistemology stands to gain a great deal if it is informed by scientific research on personality and cognition.
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Political Commitment: A Sartrean Civic Virtue
… civic republicanism, which holds that civic virtue is the foundation of a well-ordered, democratic society. Political commitment is not out of place in Anglo-American thinking; in fact, the Sartrean virtue should be seen as an important contribution to the ethical vocabulary of American …
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Skill and Virtue after 'Know-How'
… of the prospects for thinking of ethical virtue as a kind of skill in light of the discussions of ‘knowledge-how’ that begin with Gilbert Ryle. Chapter 1 offers an account of Ryle’s interest in the notion of knowledge-how as partially underpinned by the hope that ethical virtue might be …
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Female Virtue In Gothic Literature 1780-1810
… analyses presentations of the concept of female virtue in Gothic literature between 1780 and 1810 particularly by drawing on literary texts supplemented by contemporary non-literary sources in order to set out the background and definitions of my work. The word ‘virtue’ has come to mean …
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Green political theory: nature, virtue and progress
… basis for green politics, its concern with virtue ethics is held to be an important contribution. In chapter 3, a self-reflexive version of anthropocentrism is developed as the most appropriate moral basis for green politics. Some naturalistic arguments are presented in order to support …
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The Concept of Virtue: The Influence of European Ethics, Metaphysics, and Theology on American Ideas of Virtue, 1670-1770
… sixteenth century, two conflicting theories of virtue were present in British thought. One theory, supported by Calvinist theology, maintained that virtue was a standard arbitrarily created by God and revealed in nature and Scripture to distinguish the behavior of the man guided by sovereign …
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