The Virtue Ethics Working Group will investigate the role of the virtues in students’ well-being, whole-person pedagogy, and civic engagement. Our goal is to develop and implement a longitudinal study ...
Virtue ethics, rooted in Aristotelian philosophy, emphasises the development of individual character and the cultivation of virtues as central to moral conduct. In the context of business ethics, this ...
Our colleague Shannon Vallor, associate professor and chair of Santa Clara University’s Philosophy department (and an MCAE faculty scholar), has an upcoming book due to be published in August by ...
What is the point of ethics? Is it to understand what moral rules or principles we ought to follow? Is it to understand the nature of right and wrong? Is it to come up with a foolproof definition of ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this paper I examine and assess an important developing trend in environmental ethics, environmental virtue ethics. I begin by providing a ...
We heap praise on heroes. But what if their heroism is very annoying to us, making us look and feel bad? If someone makes you feel bad about yourself, are they in the wrong? You would think the answer ...
This essay reconsiders Clifford Simak’s Way Station as a nuanced exploration of environmental virtue ethics, challenging the conventional view of Simak’s ideology as conservative. It argues that Simak ...
Spider-Man 2 This iconic line from Spider-Man 2 questions more than intelligence — it invokes a deeper understanding of moral ...
Jane Austen and Dorothy Sayers understood the virtue of chastity as central to personal integrity and the foundation for true charity. Both recognised that love, unregulated by virtue, could lead to ...