Virtue Obscured and Retrieved: Character, Community, and Practices in Behavioral Science

American Behavioral Scientist

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 387-394

  Fowers, Blaine J ^a   Tjeltveit, Alan C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b MUHLENBERG COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Character; Community; Ethics; Goodness; Virtues

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242593175     PISSN: 00027642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002764203256945     Document Type: Review

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