Virtue Ethics and Situationist Personality Psychology

In this paper I examine and reply to a deflationary challenge brought against virtue ethics. The challenge comes from critics who are impressed by recent psychological evidence suggesting that much of what we take to be virtuous conduct is in fact elicited by narrowly specific social settings, as op...

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Main Author: Merritt, Maria (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2000
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2000, Volume: 3, Issue: 4, Pages: 365-383
Further subjects:B Situationism
B Nicomachean Ethics
B Character
B Hume
B Social cognitive theory
B fundamental attribution error
B Virtue Ethics
B Virtues
B Aristotle
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