MacIntyre on Progress in Rationality
‘Aristotle’s achievement then is wrongly understood if it is supposed that he offered us an account of justice and of …
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MacIntyre on Practical Reason and the Structures of Normality
‘All practical reasoning arises from someone’s asking the question “What am I to do?” The asking of that question itself …
Rosalind Hursthouse on Moral Blindspots
‘Some blind spots we take as adequate grounds for denying any virtue at all, notwithstanding the fact that some people …
Aspects of Ethics and Motivation according to Aristotle
The Virtuous Man ‘At the end of Book 1 of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle introduces a distinction between the ‘continent’ …
Rosalind Hursthouse on Moral Wisdom
‘The effort of trying to imagine someone reaching correct moral decisions about what to do by cranking through a decision …
Rosalind Hursthouse on ‘Virtue’
“The second is the concept of a virtue (or vice) itself. Suppose someone were described as having the virtue of …
