The research examines the effects of viewing a choice as one in a series of similar future choices rather than as an isolated choice. Our finding contrasts with the general wisdom that broader frames lead to exercising of greater self-control. We show that (a) in a choice between a vice and a virtue the share of the vice increases when the decision is presented as one of a series of similar fut...

Since the publication of Anscombe’s famous paper “Modern Moral Philosophy” (1958), virtue ethics has become a matter of discussion among scholars. At least four charges have been raised against virtue ethics, one of which is the charge of promoting undue enthusiasm regarding the moral fitness of human beings. This article explores the limits of virtue ethics with regard to the frailty of human ...

This paper seeks to establish whether the categories of MacIntyrean virtue ethics as applied to business organizations are meaningful in a non-western business context. It does so by building on research reported in Moore (Organ Stud, 33(3): 363-387, 2012) in which the application of virtue ethics to business organizations was investigated empirically in the UK, based on a conceptual framework ...

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...

13 Richard A. O’Connor and Penny Van Esterik Richard A. O’Connor is Biehl Professor of Anthropology at Sewanee: The University of the South. Penny Van Esterik is Professor of Anthropology at York University, Toronto. This article is developed from a chapter in ‘The dance of nurture: Embodying infant feeding’ (in preparation) by the authors, and builds on the biocultural approach begun in ‘Negot...