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Practical intelligence and the virtues
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Clarendon Press
Publication Date
2009
Language
English
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Practical intelligence and the virtues : an aristotelian approach
Deliberation
Phronesis
The phronesis controversy
Phronesis, virtue, and right action
Right action for virtue ethics
Right action and serious practical concerns
Two constraints on right action
Must virtue ethics accept the act constraint?
Can virtue ethics accept the act constraint?
Right action and virtuous motives
The structure of agent-based virtue ethics
Virtuous acts and virtuous motivations
Why virtues are virtues
Reasons for virtue
Right action and 'the virtuous person'
Doing without 'the virtuous person'
'Virtuous enough'
Ideals and aspirations
Virtues, persons, and 'the virtuous person'
Representing 'the virtuous person'
The enumeration problem
The enumeration problem
The enumeration problem : an introduction
Enumeration and overall virtuous actions
Enumeration and overall virtuous persons
Enumeration and naturalism
Individuating the virtues
From individuation to enumeration
'The same reasons'
Reasons, individuation, and cardinality
Implications for hard virtue ethics
Magnificence, generosity, and subordination
Magnificence as a virtue
Subordination, specialization, and cardinality
Alternatives to the subordination view
Situations, dispositions, and virtues
Situations and broad-based dispositions
Situationism and dispositionism
Situationism and personality
Idiographic predictions of consistency
Situations and dispositions : examining the evidence
How to test broad-based dispositions for cross-situational consistency
Putting dispositions to the test : four representative experiments
Interpreting the findings
From situationism to virtue theory
Situationism : from empirical to philosophical psychology
Situationism and virtue theory : normative adequacy
From common sense to virtue theory?
Out-sourcing the empirical work?
A cognitive-affective approach to the virtues
Defending hard virtue theory
Phronesis and the unity of the virtues
The unity of which virtues?
Attributive and model theses
Responsibility for character
Depth, self-construction, and responsibility
On responsibility and ultimate responsibility for character
What is critical distance?
From critical distance to responsibility
Objections to the critical distance view.
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9780199565795
9780191721311
019172131
9780191721311
019172131
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