Virtue Ethics - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
2003年7月18日 · In what follows we sketch four distinct forms taken by contemporary virtue ethics, namely, a) eudaimonist virtue ethics, b) agent-based and exemplarist virtue ethics, c) target-centered virtue ethics, and d) Platonistic virtue ethics.
Virtue Ethics - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
2003年7月18日 · Three of virtue ethics' central concepts, virtue, practical wisdom and eudaimonia are often misunderstood. Once they are distinguished from related but distinct concepts peculiar to modern philosophy, various objections to virtue ethics can be better assessed.
Aristotle’s Ethics - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
2001年5月1日 · We study ethics in order to improve our lives, and therefore its principal concern is the nature of human well-being. Aristotle follows Socrates and Plato in taking the virtues to be central to a well-lived life. Like Plato, he regards the ethical virtues (justice, courage, temperance and so on) as complex rational, emotional and social skills.
Moral Character - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
2003年1月15日 · Aristotle’s view, on the other hand, is usually considered a paradigm example of a “virtue ethics”, an ethical theory that gives priority to virtuous character. To see what this might mean, recall that Aristotle’s virtuous person is a genuine self-lover who enjoys most the exercise of her abilities to think and know.
Moral Theory - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
2022年6月27日 · Virtue Ethics. The right action is the action that a virtuous person would characteristically perform in the circumstances (Hursthouse 1999). These principles set out the criterion or standard for evaluation of actions.
Philanthropy - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
2024年11月12日 · 3. Ethics of Giving 3.1 Virtue Ethics. Consequentialist perspectives and their deontological critics have dominated much of the recent philosophical discussion of philanthropy. But the virtue ethics tradition provides a much longer history of philosophical reflection on giving.
Justice as a Virtue - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
2002年3月8日 · Justice as a personal virtue follows Aristotle’s model for virtues of character, in which the virtue lies as an intermediate or mean between vices of excess and defect (Nicomachean Ethics V). While he grants that there is a “general” sense of justice in which justice is coincident with complete virtue, there is a “particular” sense in ...
Deontological Ethics - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
2007年11月21日 · In other words, deontology falls within the domain of moral theories that guide and assess our choices of what we ought to do (deontic theories), in contrast to those that guide and assess what kind of person we are and should be (aretaic [virtue] theories).
Plato’s Ethics: An Overview - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
2003年9月16日 · Like most other ancient philosophers, Plato maintains a virtue-based eudaemonistic conception of ethics. That is to say, happiness or well-being ( eudaimonia ) is the highest aim of moral thought and conduct, and the virtues ( aretê : ‘excellence’) are the dispositions/skills needed to attain it.
Empirical Approaches to Moral Character - Stanford Encyclopedia …
2016年8月3日 · Perhaps the most widely used response by defenders of Aristotelian virtue ethics, the rarity response just denies that any reasonable form of the view is committed to the empirical claim that most people have the virtues.