This paper presents a concise and stimulating introduction to virtue epistemology, field of epistemology that has gained increasing importance in recent decades. At the beginning paper, we explain methodological turn towards epistemic agent as subject research, which is defining characteristic this approach epistemology. We introduce two main approaches understanding virtues: reliabilism respon...

Discussions and practices for biodiversity the environment are associated predominantly with duty ethics, which spell out do’s don’ts of good behavior. Virtue ethics offer an alternative that is much more inspirational, provided we do not reduce it to a mere enumeration environmental virtues. Moreover, virtue ethic truly humanistic, in builds on inborn human capacities rather than external sour...

Nurses are increasingly confronted with situations of moral difficulty, such as not to feed terminally ill patients, whistle blowing, or participation in termination of pregnancy. Most of these moral dilemmas are often analyzed using the principle-based approach which applies the four moral principles of justice, autonomy, beneficence, and non-malificence. In some instances, consequentialism is...

The Brazilian Dentistry Code of Ethics (DCE), Resolution CFO-71 from May 2006, is an instrument created to guide dentists' behavior in relation to the ethical aspects of professional practice. The purpose of the study is to analyze the above mentioned code comparing the deontological and bioethical focuses. In order to do so, an interpretative analysis of the code and of twelve selected texts w...