What if we began with character, my students and I asked, rather than...
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Christian B. Miller reviews Howard J. Curzer's “Virtue Ethics for the Real World: Improving Character Without Idealization.”
13 months ago

I thank Joe Carter for noticing an essay of mine on Two Bases of Morality in Catholic Theology . . . .
164 months ago

Modern self-help draws heavily on Stoic philosophy. But Aristotle was better at understanding real human happiness.
76 months ago

The coworking company, WeWork, has banned meat, citing an attempt to reduce its carbon footprint. For centuries, philosophers have made a...
73 months ago

Though virtue ethics has waxed and waned as a theory of morality over two millennia, in recent decades, it has become central to many...
59 months ago

Rosalind Hursthouse remembers the exact moment she knew she was going to study philosophy: "Somehow or another, it was love at first sight."
224 months ago

Suppose I perform an action certified by morality as good – say, giving money to charity. I then do something good because it is good.
336 months ago

Summer evenings watching sailing boats on the harbour, old roses in the garden and a framed letter from a prince on the wall - the view is...
87 months ago

Filósofos como Rosalind Hursthouse y Don Marquis alegan que se debe poner límites al aborto y desechan la idea de un alma presente en un...
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