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Discussion forum, lectures, and links to texts on Aristotle's ethical theories, and a survey of its
influence on modern virtue theory.
http://ethics.sandiego.edu/theories/aristotle/
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Ethics Updates: Anti-Theory
A short survey on the views of philosophers who are skeptical of theorising in ethics.
http://ethics.sandiego.edu/theories/anti_theory/
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Ethics and Virtue
Short article discussing the relationship of ethics and virtue in decision making. Appears at the
Ethics Connection, a centre at Santa Clara University.
http://www.scu.edu/SCU/Centers/Ethics/practicing/decision/ethicsandvirtue.html
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The Foundation of Ethics
A short essay by Karl Jahn on the natural and rational basis of ethics, emphasising the importance
of the virtues and vices.
http://karljahn.tripod.com/ethics.html
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Doing Military Ethics with War Literature
Article by Robert Bonadonno presented at JSCOPE 99, arguing for the importance of lierary narrative
in forming a practical appreciation of military virtue.
http://www.usafa.af.mil/jscope/JSCOPE99/Bonadonna99.html
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The Exercise of Military Judgment
Essay by David Lutz presented at JSCOPE 97, analysing the development of the character of General
Douglas MacArthur from the perspective of virtue ethics.
http://www.usafa.af.mil/jscope/JSCOPE97/Lutz97.htm
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Virtue Ethics and Leadership
Essay by Charles Pfaff presented at JSCOPE 98, which argues that virtue ethics can cast light on
issues of leadership that utilitarian and rule-based systems cannot.
http://www.usafa.af.mil/jscope/JSCOPE98/PFAFF98.htm
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Buddhist Virtue Ethics and the Oneness of Practice and Attainment
Critical review by KnutJohan Øen of Damien Keown's `The Nature of Buddhist Ethics'.
http://www.uio.no/~ingeba/buddha.html
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Core Values: The Problems of Justification and Motivation
Article by Charles A. Pfaff presented at JSCOPE, an organisation concerned with the application of
ethics to the military. Pfaff argues that the core values initiative casts insufficent light on
practical problems, and that an account of character and virtue is needed.
http://www.usafa.af.mil/jscope/JSCOPE99/Pfaff99.html
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Virtue Ethics and Core Values
Essay by Jeffrey R. Tiel presented at JSCOPE 99, applying the discussion on virtue ethics to the
needs of the US armed services, and arguing that an account of virtue needs to be supplemented by
an account of core values.
http://www.usafa.af.mil/jscope/JSCOPE99/Tiel99.html
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Virtue Epistemology
An approach in epistemology that applies the resources of virtue theory to problems in the theory
of knowledge. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by John Greco.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology-virtue/
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Rationality and Evaluative Frameworks
Thesis by Arto Laitinen, principally concerned with the claims by Alasdair MacIntyre and Charles
Taylor on the nature of moral reasoning.
http://www.jyu.fi/~rakahu/kirjat/ARTO.html
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Does Hume Have an Ethics of Virtue?
Article by Marcia L. Homiak presented at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy, which argues that
Hume's ethics is best seen as a virtue ethics.
http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Mode/ModeHomi.htm
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What Should We Use for Human Spare Parts?
Article from Shoot the Messenger, an organisation that attempts to `engage and interpret popular
culture'. Discusses the ethics of cloning from a number of perspectives, and is especially
sympathetic to the treatment of MacIntyre.
http://www.shootthemessenger.com.au/9910/c_clone1.htm
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Review of The Virtues in Medical Practice
By Jonathan Imber, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
http://www.nejm.org/content/1994/0331/0004/0280.asp
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Virtue Ethics (Not Too) Simplified
Article by Philip Cafaro presented at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy.
http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/TEth/TEthCafa.htm
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Virtue Ethics in the Ancient World
Graduate seminar series organised by Cynthia Freeland at the University of Houston.
http://www.uh.edu/~cfreelan/courses/Virtues.html
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Aristotle's Virtue Ethics
Notes by Charles Ess.
http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/Reason/Aristotle.html
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The New Dialogue
Interesting site, concerned with the idea that there is a crisis in liberalism. Contents are
structured as a Platonic dialogue, covering the works of such familiar figures as MacIntyre,
Sandell and Taylor.
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/cecmpe/nddoor.html
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Virtue Ethics without Character Traits
Gilbert Harman argues in this essay that the account of virtue ethics of Judith Thomson has the
advantage of, unlike her rivals, not supposing the existence of `strong character traits'.
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~ghh/Thomson.html
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Moral Philosophy Meets Social Psychology
Gilbert Harman argues that the belief that `strong character attributes exist' is both grounded in
common sense and a mistake.
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~ghh/Virtue.html
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Virtue Theory
Entry in the Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy.
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/v/virtue.htm
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