Abortion: Approaches from Virtue

Virtue theory and abortion.

The sort of ethical theory derived from Aristotle, variously described as virtue ethics, virtue-based ethics, or neo-Aristotelianism, is becoming better known, and is now quite widely recognized as at least a possible rival to deontological and utilitarian theories. With recognition has come criticism, of varying quality. In this article I shall discuss nine separate criticisms that I have fr...

virtue epistemology: its nature, origin and approaches

virtue epistemology is a class of recent approaches to epistemologythat, in contrast with analytic epistemology, focuses on epistemicevaluation of persons’ properties, rather than properties of beliefs.this paper seeks to explain the nature of virtue epistemology as wellas its main approaches. explaining the nature of epistemic virtue as areliable belief-forming faculty and the character traits...

Halakhah and philosophical approaches to abortion.

For me, as for most of the readers of TRADITION, abortion on . demand is prohibited because halakhah says so; and that's that.. Thus a philosophical argument on abortion, as presented by Dr. Brody, * Chairman of the Department of Philosophy at Rice University, is primarily of philosophical interest and without practical implications for Our own lives. In fact, however~. this is not so. Should w...

Talking Virtue: professionalism and virtue ethics

The twentieth century phenomenon of professionalism had a major impact on the economy of nation states and has been recognised as a key element of post-industrial societies. As an anointed class, professionals reserved the right to prescribe their own roles and responsibilities. Critics of professional interests, however, have described professionals’ own definition of their roles and responsib...

From mechanism to virtue: evaluating Nudge-theory