Abstract Situationists maintain that psychological evidence (e.g., the well-known Good Samaritan experiment) challenges a key assumption of virtue ethics, namely virtuous people display cross-situational consistency behavior. This situationist critique is frequently thought to pose serious threat ethics. Virtue ethicists have so far mainly put forward conceptual rather than empirical arguments ...

ethics of ancient iran has always been formed one of the most interesting topics for iranian studies. because of the importance of religion in the sassanid's period, the iranian ethics gained great importance and a number of ethical works were developed. andarz and andarzgoy traditions are among the prevalent ethical styles of this period. in the field of ancient iran andarz-nameha the sub...

The concept of moral identity based on virtue ethics has become an issue of considerable import in explaining moral behavior. This attempt to offer adequate explanations of the full range of morally relevant human behavior inevitably provokes boundary issues between ethics and moral psychology. In terms of the relationship between the two disciplines, some argue for “naturalized (or psychologiz...