Virtuous Action in the Agent-Based Virtue Ethics and Practical Wisdom

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-48
Author(s):  
You Min Kim
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
Virtuous Action ◽  
Agent Based

Virtues, Inclinations, and Oneness

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip J. Ivanhoe
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
The Self ◽  
Virtuous Action

This chapter develops various implications of the oneness hypothesis when applied to theories of virtue, drawing on several claims that are closely related to the hypothesis. Many of the views introduced and defended are inspired by neo-Confucianism and so the chapter offers an example of constructive philosophy bridging cultures and traditions. It focuses on Foot’s theory, which holds that virtues correct excesses or deficiencies in human nature. The alternative maintains that vices often arise not from an excess or deficiency in motivation but from a mistaken conception of self, one that sees oneself as somehow more important than others. The chapter goes on to argue that such a view helps address the “self-centeredness objection” to virtue ethics and that the effortlessness, joy, and wholeheartedness that characterizes fully virtuous action are best conceived as a kind of spontaneity that affords a special feeling of happiness dubbed “metaphysical comfort.”

scholarly journals Justice as Lawfulness

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-278
Author(s):  
TRISTAN J. ROGERS
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Tradition ◽  
Individual Justice ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractWhat is the relationship between justice as an individual virtue and justice as an institutional virtue? The latter has been exhaustively explored by political philosophers, whereas the former remains underexplored in the literature on virtue ethics. This article defends the view that individual justice is logically prior to institutional justice, and argues that this view requires a conception of individual justice I call ‘justice as lawfulness’. The resulting view consists of three claims. First, just institutions are composed of the relations between just persons. Second, the just person has a disposition to act in accordance with the legal and social norms (collectively, thenomoi) of the existing political tradition. Third, departures from thenomoirequire that the just person act with practical wisdom to reform thenomoiaccording to an implicit standard of justice in the political tradition.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Maxwell A. Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
Institutional Analysis ◽  
Contemporary Literature

Institutions are powerful forces in our lives because they exert an influence over our choices and actions, giving them meaning and significance. Whereas much of the contemporary literature on institutions stresses the importance of interests and rights, less attention has been given to the goods that institutions deliver. This chapter defines what we mean by institutions, and introduces the idea of practical wisdom from the tradition of virtue ethics. Linking institutional analysis to virtue ethics helps us to better appreciate the need for wise practitioners and to understand why the aims (or goods) of institutions cannot be achieved without them.

Hutchesonian Inspired Agent‐Based Virtue Ethics

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-504
Author(s):  
Scott Gelfand
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Agent Based

Against Agent-Based Virtue Ethics

2004 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Brady
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Agent Based

Virtue Ethics and International Relations

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten Ainley
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
International Ethics ◽  
International Political Theory ◽  
The Right ◽  
Working Out

Virtue Ethics (VE) is a way of thinking about how to behave well which focuses on the character of moral agents and the nature of the good life. This contrasts with dominant approaches to international ethics which prioritize the identification or development of moral rules or duties (deontological approaches) or the consequences of actions (consequentialist approaches). The relevance of virtue ethics to international affairs is established by setting out the critique of the dominant law-based approaches offered by VE and then exploring the positive contribution VE can make. Virtue ethicists argue that character and a concrete conception of the human good are central to ethics—that the right question to ask when working out what it means to be ethical is not “what should I do” but “what sort of person should I be?” The three central concepts in VE—virtue, practical wisdom, and flourishing—have not been applied systematically qua VE in international political theory or international relations, but their appearance in various guises in recent scholarship suggests avenues for future research. Four such avenues are identified, ranging from the moderate to the radical, which offer innovative ways to confront key ethical dilemmas faced in international affairs.

Relation, Virtue, and Relational Virtue: Three Concepts of Caring

Hypatia ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 92-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirong Luo
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Confucian Ethics ◽  
Agent Based

This essay breaks new ground in defending the view that contemporary care-based ethics and early Confucian ethics share some important common ground. Luo also introduces the notion of relational virtue in an attempt to bridge a conceptual gap between relational caring ethics and agent-based virtue ethics, and to make the connections between the ethics of care and Confucian ethics philosophically clearer and more defensible.

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