Important empirically informed proposals of virtue cultivation invoke techniques goal pursuit. This paper argues that these are effective in changing behavior due to the attention narrowing they bring about, and further show such can threaten appropriate exercise phronetic-related capacities. When capacities threatened, two derivative problems arise: (1) One end up acting morally inappropriate ...

The interpretability of Machiavelli’s political thought relates, in the most part, to the concept of virtue and its dimensions. In Western thought, this concept has had continuity and has reached the Renaissance and Machiavelli’s times. In the Roman and Medieval tradition, philosophical, verbal, religious and even literary and historical approaches were dominant in the clarification and explana...

What place is there for virtue theory in theological ethics? Many question the normative significance of virtue theory in theological ethics today, leaving it to rule-based ethics to provide action-guidance. There are three key objections to the normativity of virtue theory: that virtue theory is about agents rather than actions, that virtue theory has nothing to say directly about the morality...

Duncan Pritchard (et al. 2010, 2012a, 2012b) has recently shifted his view from an account that primarily understands knowledge in terms of the safety principle (a view mainly developed in his 2005 monograph on epistemic luck) to an ‘impure’ variety of virtue epistemology, which combines the safety principle with a weakened virtue-theoretic condition, a view that he calls anti-luck virtue epist...

during medical training, students obtain enough skills and knowledge. however, medical ethics accomplishes its goals when, together with training medical courses, it guides students behavior towards morality so that ethics-oriented medical practice is internalized. medical ethics is a branch of applied ethics which tries to introduce ethics into physicians’ practice and ethical decisions; thus,...

This paper presents the sensing plan of VIRTUE; an active vision system based around a VIRtual TrinocUlar stEreo-head. VIRTUE is used to build polyhedral volumetric models of unknown objects based on recovered 3-D line segments. Partial models and a viewpoint enumeration scheme are used to guide the image acquisition process and to determine `where to look next'. Results of the active vision re...

the present essay is a critical study of zagzebski’s reading and criticism of plantinga’s virtue-epistemology. zagzebski, on the account of her definition of knowledge and the role that she assigns to ‘volition’ and ‘awareness’ in virtuous acts, along with her acceptance of the uniformity of moral and epistemic virtue, challenges plantinga’s theory of knowledge. zagzebski believes that although...

With all due respect for my SLU colleague for whom no drafts are " rough " , this is a " rough " draft. Much remains to be done to complete the argument of this paper. I will be grateful for all comments, but please do not quote at this stage of development.