Tosi and Warmke discuss cases where the speaker intends for audience to take their expressions as evidence of good moral character. However, another possibility exists that similarly exploits social communicative architecture. A contribution public discourse may also attempt strut by demonstrating bad character, purposely failing meet evaluative standards its audience—or, paradigmatically my pu...

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 ...

Philosophers have tried very hard to show that we must be virtuous happy. But as long stick the modern understanding of happiness something experienced by a subject – and I argue against contemporary eudaimonists should indeed do so there can at best exist contingent causal connection between virtue happiness. Nevertheless, good reason think being is non-accidentally conducive Why? First, rough...