Moral psychology and the unity of the virtues

Ratio

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 145-167

  Wolf, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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EID: 46149118566     PISSN: 00340006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9329.2007.00354.x     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. I owe thanks to audiences at the University of Arkansas, Rice University, the University of Texas, Princeton University, Yale University, Oxford University, the Australian National University, and Monash University, and more particularly to Robert Adams, John Cooper, and Jerome Schneewind for their extremely helpful and illuminating comments on an earlier version of this paper
2. See Terry Penner, "The Unity of Virtue," The Philosophical Review, Vol. 82 (January, 1973), 35-68 for discussion of these theses
3. Consider Mel Gibson's character in the first Lethal Weapon movie. Is he courageous?
4. We sometimes use the expression 'you are too kind,' but I don't think we ever mean it literally
5. Thanks to Doug MacLean for pressing this objection
6. I owe thanks to Linda Brown for getting me to think about this objection, and for bringing out the power of Michael Oakeschott's expression of a related point of view
7. For a compelling description of this point of view and its relevance to morality, see P. F. Strawson, "Social Morality and the Individual Ideal," Philosophy, 1961, pp. 1-17