32 Essential Virtues
A list of 32 basic virtues, with relevant quotes from religious, philosophic, and literary sources. |
Buddhist Virtue Ethics and the Oneness of Practice and Attainment
Critical review by KnutJohan Øen of Damien Keown's `The Nature of Buddhist Ethics'. |
Core Values: The Problems of Justification and Motivation
Article by Charles A. Pfaff presented at JSCOPE, an organisation concerned with the application of ethics to the military. Pfaff argues that the core values initiative casts insufficent light on practical problems, and that an account of character and vi |
Does Hume Have an Ethics of Virtue?
Article by Marcia L. Homiak presented at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy, which argues that Hume's ethics is best seen as a virtue ethics. |
Doing Military Ethics with War Literature
Article by Robert Bonadonno presented at JSCOPE 99, arguing for the importance of lierary narrative in forming a practical appreciation of military virtue. |
Ethics and Virtue
Short article discussing the relationship of ethics and virtue in decision making. Appears at the Ethics Connection, a centre at Santa Clara University. |
Ethics Updates: Anti-Theory
A short survey on the views of philosophers who are skeptical of theorising in ethics. |
Literature on Aristotle and Virtue Ethics
Discussion forum, lectures, and links to texts on Aristotle's ethical theories, and a survey of its influence on modern virtue theory. |
Rationality and Evaluative Frameworks
Thesis by Arto Laitinen, principally concerned with the claims by Alasdair MacIntyre and Charles Taylor on the nature of moral reasoning. |
Review of The Virtues in Medical Practice
By Jonathan Imber, published in the New England Journal of Medicine. |
The Exercise of Military Judgment
Essay by David Lutz presented at JSCOPE 97, analysing the development of the character of General Douglas MacArthur from the perspective of virtue ethics. |
The Foundation of Ethics
A short essay by Karl Jahn on the natural and rational basis of ethics, emphasising the importance of the virtues and vices. |
The Four Virtues
Dedicated to the practical applications of the virtues of courage, temperance, wisdom and justice. With sections for Eastern and Western theories. |
The New Dialogue
Interesting site, concerned with the idea that there is a crisis in liberalism. Contents are structured as a Platonic dialogue, covering the works of such familiar figures as MacIntyre, Sandell and Taylor. |
Virtue Epistemology
An approach in epistemology that applies the resources of virtue theory to problems in the theory of knowledge. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by John Greco. |
Virtue Ethics (Not Too) Simplified
Article by Philip Cafaro presented at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy. |
Virtue Ethics and Core Values
Essay by Jeffrey R. Tiel presented at JSCOPE 99, applying the discussion on virtue ethics to the needs of the US armed services, and arguing that an account of virtue needs to be supplemented by an account of core values. |
Virtue Ethics and Leadership
Essay by Charles Pfaff presented at JSCOPE 98, which argues that virtue ethics can cast light on issues of leadership that utilitarian and rule-based systems cannot. |
Virtue Ethics in the Ancient World
Graduate seminar series organised by Cynthia Freeland at the University of Houston. |
Virtue Theory
Entry in the Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy. |
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