Sentences with phrase «virtue ethics»

A stronger and more positive perspective for thinking about civic obligation can be found in virtue ethics.

But virtue ethics warns us that one's character is formed by one's habits.

In short, virtue ethics does not ask what we ought to do, but asks what we ought to be.

Much contemporary literature on legal philosophy, management, and self - improvement seems like a variation on the age - old theme of classical virtue ethics.

The feebleness of ethics may be conceded in the case of consequentialist and duty ethics, but what about virtue ethics?

What makes recent virtue ethics (Bennett's included) so ineffectively pious is that it does not admit that the moral force of a virtue such as courage depends greatly on its circumstances.

(If you curious, the first is Aristotelian virtue ethics, which consists solely of circular logic.)

In the early years of their long - running dialogue, Stout might well have expected Hauerwas's Christian virtue ethics to fit well with his own account of democratic virtues, the two value systems cooperating to sustain a secular democracy without yielding to the secularism of Rorty and others.

Instead of approaching ethical questions in terms of specifiable rules or in terms of the consequences of one's actions, virtue ethics asks which virtues one ought to possess.

Building on this convergence between reason and revelation, such thinkers as Aquinas developed an elaborate virtue ethics to outline what further perfections are possible and desirable for human nature, especially under the aid of grace.

They argue that virtue ethics gives a more holistic view of the moral life than principle ethics does; it not only insists that we try to be blameless but promotes moral excellence; and it recognizes that the vitality of the good life is not codifiable in a set of principles.

Through William Bennett's best - selling Book of Virtues, virtue ethics appears to have enjoyed some popular success, but my guess is that the book was more often bought and given as a present than lovingly read to children.

A major element of Westberg's approach is to de-emphasize the place of natural law in Christian ethics, in favor of a biblical and Christocentric virtue ethics approach.

Recent virtue ethics has allowed itself to be coopted on this point by its rivals, and as a consequence its teachings seem old - fashioned and without purchase on our predicaments.

The participants represented a variety of educational and intellectual backgrounds, yet were able to avoid the ideological labeling (e.g., «sectarianism» vs. «Constantinianism,» «virtue ethics» vs. «casuistry») that often plagues older ethicists.

Third, I will treat in detail the Hartshornian stance regarding abortion, a stance with which I agree, both to illustrate the aforementioned connection between moderation in metaphysics and moderation in ethics as well as to combat the charge that virtue ethics, because it focuses more on the character of agents than on their acts, is incapable of treating the really difficult issues in applied ethics.

Over the past several decades both philosophers and theologians within the academy have participated in a revival of interest in what is generally called «virtue ethics» - an ethic that focuses not so much upon what we ought to do, but upon character, upon the sort of persons we ought to....

Precisely as a specimen of «virtue ethics,» it gives relatively little direct guidance about what we ought to do.

Over the past several decades both philosophers and theologians within the academy have participated in a revival of interest in what is generally called «virtue ethics» - an ethic that focuses not so much upon what we ought to do, but upon character, upon the sort of persons we ought to be.

According to virtue ethics, the cultivation and formation of character through virtues such as temperance and fortitude is the essential aspect of the moral life.

Joe Hatfield's research focuses on the ethics of war, virtue ethics, and the just war tradition.