Virtue ethics is person rather than action based. It looks at the moral character of the person carrying out an action. A right act is the action a virtuous person would do in the same circumstances.

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 ...

A comparison of the work of Immanuel Kant and Aristotle with regard to Deontology and Virtue Ethics respectively a) Kantian deontology – social, political and cultural influences on Kant’s ethical ...

Because I am white, I do not have to write this. My privilege allows me to be silent. Because I am white, I could ignore the news and social media and live in my bubble. My privilege allows me that ...

Lately I've become interested in particular virtues in my teaching and research. In the book Radical Virtues, philosopher Richard White discusses several reasons that support studying individual ...

An appreciation of the virtues one wishes to embody can help to navigate the complex ethical dilemmas physicians may face during the COVID-19 crisis. Approximately 2000 years ago, the ancient Greek ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/jthought.46.3-4.25 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/jthought.46.3-4.25 Copy URL CASEL gathers scientific evidence to demonstrate the ...

The virtues provide us with windows onto the reality of own souls and those of others, as well as onto the reality of our own agency in shaping those souls and their destiny. (anyaberkut / iStock / ...

In the second episode of the Disney+ series Daredevil: Born Again, Hector Ayala comes upon a man being beaten by two others in a subway station. Ayala rushes to his defense, and in the ensuing fight ...