Virtue and austerity

Virtue and austerity

Virtue ethics is often proposed as a third way in health-care ethics, that while consequentialism and deontology focus on action guidelines, virtue focuses on character; all three aim to help agents discern morally right action although virtue seems to have least to contribute to political issues, such as austerity. I claim: (1) This is a bad way to characterize virtue ethics. The 20th century ...

Talking Virtue: professionalism and virtue ethics

The twentieth century phenomenon of professionalism had a major impact on the economy of nation states and has been recognised as a key element of post-industrial societies. As an anointed class, professionals reserved the right to prescribe their own roles and responsibilities. Critics of professional interests, however, have described professionals’ own definition of their roles and responsib...

Austerity and the cadaver.

The rresence of increasing numbers of allied health slUdents at colleges and universities across the nation is having a great effecl on curriculum development, distribution of resources, and use of rhysical facilities Expanded slUdel1l enrollment, coupled with decreased funding for higher education, leads to concern that valuable expel'iences necessary for adequate training of allied health slU...

Moderation, Rationality, and Virtue

Hype and Virtue

In this paper, we question whether hypervisors are really acting as a disruptive force in OS research, instead arguing that they have so far changed very little at a technical level. Essentially, we have retained the conventional Unix-like OS interface and added a new ABI based on PC hardware which is highly unsuitable for most purposes. Despite commercial excitement, focus on hypervisor design...