RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To examine the nature, scope and significance of virtues in the biographies of medical practitioners and to determine what kind of virtues are at play in their ethical behaviour and reflection. METHODS A case study involving 19 medical practitioners associated with the Sydney Medical School, using semi-structured narrative interviews. Narrative data were analyse...

Discussions and practices for biodiversity the environment are associated predominantly with duty ethics, which spell out do’s don’ts of good behavior. Virtue ethics offer an alternative that is much more inspirational, provided we do not reduce it to a mere enumeration environmental virtues. Moreover, virtue ethic truly humanistic, in builds on inborn human capacities rather than external sour...

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...

this paper compares epistemic virtue from the viewpoints of zagzebski and mulla sadra, aiming to determine the extent to which their viewpoints on epistemic virtue are similar. zagzebski, the contemporary philosopher, considers epistemic virtue as the basis on which knowledge is interpreted. she sees epistemic virtue as a requirement for achieving knowledge. mulla sadra, the founder of transcen...

This article analyses the concept of sufficiency in relation to sustainability and discusses ethical implications for sustainable organisation time place. We identify three foundational conceptualisations related sustainability: (1) a limits model that starts with objective boundaries imposed by biosphere basic human needs; (2) preference treats as subjective inclination moderation defined situ...