... ethics are characterized by two attractive features. The first is that proponents of virtue ethics acknowledge the need to describe how moral agents acquire or develop ... of being an agent rather than the concept of right action, thereby reminding us that we have to construe ethics in a way that makes it possible to understand how it becomes accessible and important for us, the ethical subjects. The ...

... justice ... there has always been a recognition that the four pillars of ordinary human virtue were not a matter of special revelation but the raw materials ... home to live in – no house to keep". The recovery of virtue ethics has been one of the most significant developments in moral ... Williams' speech reminds us of the potential of virtue ethics to provide our society with a shared moral ...

... seem to presuppose a reference to some shared impresonal standard in virtue of which at most one of those contending parties can be in the right, and yet on the other the poverty of the arguments adduced in ... use. David Hume was perceptive enough to recognize the problem, but concluded that ethics must therefore be a matter of the emotions rather than the intellect. From Hume followed a series of ...

... 's ethical theories involved, roughly, concepts of "virtue" and "fulfilling an intended function," or telos. Arete, or virtue, is simply the fulfillment of telos. Goodness, roughly the equivalent of arete, means that one ... one, or Ayn Rand's awful notes on the "virtue" of selfishness. Capitalist societies invariably produce this type ...

... recent article in the Sudbury Star. In “Different Views on Ethics”, librarian Kaija Maillloux rounds up eight books with unique perspectives on ethics. From the article: “Reclaiming Virtue: How We can Develop the Moral Intelligence to ... recent discoveries of neuroscience.” To learn more about Reclaiming Virtue, see this interview with John Bradshaw from earlier this year. ...

... Republicans are hardly paragons of virtue.  Emphasis mine. ALGOP Triangulates Ethics Issue of Paragon ... Governor Guy Hunt was removed from office over ethics issues. ·    ... Democrats and that Republicans in the Legislature, and Gov. Riley, have been quite willing to use ethics as a talking point but have not been willing to get on board with legislation that might have garnered ...

... exploring key topics in contemporary ethics and moral philosophy. Continuum Ethics presents a series of books that ... the final chapter(s) - the future of the topic in contemporary ethics and other research areas. The authors of individual volumes will ... Realism Punishment Reasons and Rationality Rights Utility Virtue Anyone interested in contributing to this series should contact the series ...

... post as a response to my post, or as a response to the ongoing discussion on carbon ethics – but either way, it really does not does not “bring about any clarity to the many discussions we’ve had here about ... ;moral” (pious), personally low carbon life – the relevant virtue here is in spurring and organizing the social transformation we so desperately need if we want our ...

From Ethics: Approaching Moral Decisions (Contours of Christian Philosophy) by Arthur Holmes: motives, intentions, and underlying dispositions. What these ... all inner states rather than overt behaviors and, second, that they are affective rather than purely cognitive states. A virtue is a right inner disposition, and a disposition is a tendency to act in certain ways. Disposition is more basic, ...

The jug in Lacan's seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis. This vase which has always been there, and which has long been used to make us conceive the mysteries of creation by means or ... . Heidegger situates the vase at the center of the essence of earth and sky. It unites first of all, by virtue of the act of libation, by its dual orientation - upwards in order to receive and toward the ...