The Missing Virtue: Justice in Modern Virtue Ethics
Several commentators have noted that justice has not fared well in the revival of virtue ethics; it has become damagingly marginalized and no longer has a starring role. Given its traditional place among the four cardinal virtues this is a remarkable state of affairs and yet exactly this has o...
| Published in: | Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2016]
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Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
Year: 2016, Volume: 90, Pages: 121-132 |
| IxTheo Classification: | NCA Ethics VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | Several commentators have noted that justice has not fared well in the revival of virtue ethics; it has become damagingly marginalized and no longer has a starring role. Given its traditional place among the four cardinal virtues this is a remarkable state of affairs and yet exactly this has occurred has not been adequately explored or explained. In this paper, I argue that the particular moral virtue of justice has been largely disregarded by the contemporary virtue theorists primarily because their conception of justice is so different from Aristotle's. Accordingly, they do not need the virtue of justice to do the kind of explanatory work in their systems that it does in Aristotle's. |
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| ISSN: | 2153-7925 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Catholic Philosophical Association, Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/acpaproc20181368 |