RT Article
T1 Virtue Ethics and Action Guidance
JF Theological studies
VO 82
IS 4
SP 565
OP 582
A1 Daly, Daniel
LA English
PB Sage Publ.
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1779687206
AB Theological ethicists rarely allow the virtues to perform the heavyweight work of guiding action. This article contests this tradition and argues that, and demonstrates how, virtue ethics provides a practicable method of normative action guidance. The article contends that there are five interrelated but distinct modes of virtue action guidance. The first three modes—dialogue, emulation, and substituted judgment—invite the agent to take counsel with moral exemplars. The interrogative and discovery modes direct agents to morally deliberate using thick accounts of the virtues.
K1 Virtues
K1 Virtue Ethics
K1 Thomas Aquinas
K1 Moral Deliberation
K1 Prudence
K1 Moral Character
K1 Exemplars
K1 everyday ethics
K1 counsel
K1 action guidance
DO 10.1177/00405639211055177