Character and moral choice in the cultivation of virtue

Philosophy

Volumn 78, Issue 304, 2003, Pages 219-232

  Carr, David ^a  

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EID: 22144433469     PISSN: 00318191     EISSN: 1469817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031819103000251     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Aristotle The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1925) Book II, Parto, p. 38
2. For the idea of 'rival' moral traditions, of course, see A.C. MacIntyre, After Virtue (Notre Dame: Notre Dame Press, 1981)
3. Whose Justice, Which Rationality? (Notre Dame: Notre Dame Press, 1987)
4. and Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry (Notre Dame: Notre Dame Press, 1992)
5. Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1925), Book II, Part 1, p. 28
6. see also, J. Jacobs, Choosing Character (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001)
7. For a stout modern defence of the unity of the virtues, see P. T. Geach, The Virtues (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977)
8. see also, B. Kent, 'Moral growth and the unity of the virtues', in D. Carr and J. Steutel (eds), Virtue Ethics and Moral Education, (London: Routledge, 1999)
9. Owen Flanagan's, Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991) is a rich source of examples of this kind
10. see also M. C. Nussbaum 'Non-relative virtues: an Aristotelian approach', in M. C. Nussbaum and A. Sen (eds), The Quality of Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993) for a similar, albeit more socially contextualized, view