... ethics (utilitarianism and deontology) and “virtue ethics.” It first discusses the modernist theory of ethics before turning to the notion of a moral imagination in “postmodern” accounts by Putnam and Richard Rorty, both of which would benefit from a more robust form of Deweyan pragmatism...

... Albela Fleurdeliz R alterity disconnectedness isolation Zigon Jarrett His Full Height Speyer Speyer Maria care transitions communication Denmark elderly embodiment intersectional health care Levinas patient care pathways phenomenology virtue ethics Figure 1. Drawing for Helle Sofie...

...This chapter shows that hospitality is a virtue of place and always happens in a place. Our experiences of place — implacement and displacement — are precisely those that mark the preconditions for hosting the other. Informed by Aristotelian virtue ethics, environmental studies and contemporary...

..., the desire for which embraces and underlies all other desires. The question is whether such a conception of motivation is compatible with the virtue ethics that it is supposed to support. In providing an interpretative reconstruction of several key ideas in Nicomachean Ethics, some reference...

...Beginning with two commentaries on Aristotle, this chapter focuses on themes in neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics, including Alasdair MacIntyre's accounts of practices and common goods. The evaluation of these theories, which shows that they support the existential conception of striving...

... developed and inspiring environmental virtue ethics, which links environmental protection to human flourishing. This ethics demands restraint from us in our dealings with nature, but in return it offers us hope that we ourselves will lead better lives. Rolston Holmes Lowell James Russell Emerson Ralph...

... to ethical theory, referred to today by the terms “consequentialism,” “deontology,” and “virtue ethics.” Assessing the relationship that loyalty to loyalty has to each of these theories gives rise to two arguments in favor of Royce's philosophy of loyalty. The first argument holds that because Royce's...

... of the individual Paul ine selfhood creativity Genesis traitor Schell C Hannah autonomy California/California Gold Rush Christianity Community Ethics Feminism Loyalty Morality Virtue/Virtue Ethics In a recent book-length examination of the relationship between virtue ethics and liberatory struggle...

.../Virtue Ethics In preceding chapters, I have considered the nature of loyalty, the principle of loyalty to loyalty, how to learn loyalty, and how to be loyal in the context of community. In this chapter, I focus on disloyalty. While one may be tempted to describe disloyalty as simply the antonym...

... Loyalty Meaning/Meaning of Life Morality Virtue/Virtue Ethics I have just discussed, in the previous chapter, two contemporary applications of Royce's philosophy of loyalty, as I have presented and advocated it in this book. The problems addressed by these applications were first introduced...

...This chapter will explore what I take to be the post-Kantian practical-possible ethics par excellence: contemporary virtue ethics. In the spirit of Aristotle, contemporary virtue ethics seeks to provide an account of ethics that is relevant to life, as we know it—and for our...