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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"virtue theory"”.
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The Euthanasia Debate: International Experience and Canadian Policy Proposals
… into a society. A theoretical model based on virtue theory is then used to interpret these findings and to frame a constructive response. The policy alternative of enhanced resources for palliative care is presented. It is concluded that the risks associated with euthanasia are momentous and …
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Moral deftness : an intellectual virtue ethic for the social media age
… to the development and upholding of moral virtue, resulting in polarization and morally vicious behaviour becoming all too prevalent on such platforms. It is the central aim of this thesis to present a new kind of moral theory which aims at overcoming these challenges, adopting features …
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Nicomachean and Neo-Aristotelian Ethics and Shakespeare's Tragedies
… and King Lear--through the lens of contemporary virtue ethics theory, thereby offering new conceptions of how morality operates in these plays. Although neo-Aristotelian moral philosophers locate the roots of their theories in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, their arguments reach far beyond …
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A Study of Aristotelian Demands for Some Psychological Views of the Emotions
… the role of the emotions in Aristotelian virtue theories and examines how well some contemporary psychological views of the emotions deal with these issues. The discussion of the role of emotion in Aristotelian virtue theory draws on Aristotle's texts and the works of Terence Irwin, Nancy …
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Moses Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas on the Good Life: From the Fall to Human Perfectibility
… Significantly, the role of faith as a virtue in both Maimonides and Aquinas makes a substantive difference over Aristotle’s in theoretical and practical ways, and can be used to exploit their accounts of the human Fall, moral perfection, and ultimate human perfection—the knowledge of …
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Epistemically Adrift: Mood Disorders and Navigating Responsibility
… for depression and anxiety disorders – drawing a virtue theory from the existentialist tradition that focuses on the outskirts of mental disorder in order to create an inclusive ethical system for those generally excluded in moral philosophy. The first chapter outlines the general theory of being …
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Business ethics: the process of making a moral decision in the workplace
… Four themes emerge relating to gender, emotions, virtues and membership of communities. On gender, general support is indicated of Gilligan's theory relating to ethics of justice (predominantly male) and of care (predominantly female). The process of cognitive mapping highlights the way in which …
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Liberalism and the virtues
… of liberal democracy have relegated the liberal virtues---traits such as tolerance, reasonableness, and fairness---to a secondary role within the theory and practice of liberal justice. Their reasoning for this is clear: the virtues prescribe a vision of the good life, while the aim of the …
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Imaginative Simulation in the Moral Life
… thought experiments in the development of moral theory. In the final part of the thesis, I show how imaginative simulation provides a new framework for virtue theory and weakness of will.
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Examining Loyalty The Folk and The Philosopher
… valuable perspective. The status of loyalty as a virtue is disputed, especially by philosophers, when it is observed that loyalty can be used in the commission of evil. It has also been denigrated as blindly emotional rather than rational. However, through my analysis, I conclude with a rational …
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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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Moral regulation in business : an investigation into corporate codes of ethics
… obedience may be considered to be their primary virtue. The orthodox company code takes little account of the interpretive powers of its subjects, or their ability to deliberate on moral matters. Therefore, in order to overcome these limitations, an alternative format for the design and …
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M̀oral sense' from the Cambridge platonists to Adam Smith
… Cambridge Platonists, it flourished as a moral theory with Francis Hutcheson in the 1720s, and it had many supporters in the decades that followed. Only with the much more astute philosophies of David Hume and Adam Smith were the basic presumptions behind the notion of a natural moral sense …
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M̀oral sense' from the Cambridge platonists to Adam Smith
… Cambridge Platonists, it flourished as a moral theory with Francis Hutcheson in the 1720s, and it had many supporters in the decades that followed. Only with the much more astute philosophies of David Hume and Adam Smith were the basic presumptions behind the notion of a natural moral sense …