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Virtue ethics as a proposal, not a description

Virtue ethics is not a theory about how most people actually make their moral choices, but a proposal for how we should set about making ourselves able to make better moral choices. Building moral character is a challenge, so the fact that the majority don’t seem to have risen to it is not surprising.

Saved 23 April 2015

#virtue #ethics #character #morality

Arrabbiarsi nel modo giusto

«Chiunque può arrabbiarsi, questo è facile; ma arrabbiarsi con la persona giusta, e nel grado giusto, e al momento giusto, e per lo scopo giusto, e nel modo…

Adesso basta (Simone Perotti) #emotions #virtue #ethics

Gentilezza anche verso chi non conta

Non vanno indossati abiti lussuosi, nella frequentazione dei ceti umili. Se il signore rimprovera un collega, il samurai dovrebbe cercare di difenderlo. In…

Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena) #confucianism #samurai #ethics #virtue

Onishi contro intuizionismo, formalismo ed edonismo

Onishi si occupa soprattutto dell’etica. Propugna i valori di una morale individuale, discostandosi dalla tendenza generale del pensiero Meiji, incline al…

Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena) #ethics #intuition #virtue #pleasure

Gilbert's three kinds of happiness

One researcher who has spent many years trying to get at the answer is a delightful elf of a psychologist named Daniel Gilbert, at Harvard. Other definitions…

Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina) #happiness #emotions #morality #virtue

The character ethic

In stark contrast, almost all the literature in the first 150 years or so focused on what could be called the Character Ethic as the foundation of…

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey) #character #success #principles #virtue

Asceticism and virtue

The Ascetic.—The ascetic makes out of virtue a slavery.

Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits #virtue