In this paper, I elucidate Hume’s account of doxastic virtues and offer three reasons that contemporary epistemologists ought to consider it as an alternative to one of the broadly Aristotelian models currently offered. Specifically, I suggest that Hume’s account of doxastic virtues obviates (1) the much-debated question about whether such virtues are intellectual, “moral,” or some combination ...

This conceptual paper addresses the role individual plays in sustainability against backdrop of ethical dimensions sustainability. We discuss relevance moral personhood as a basis for and develop model The outlines discusses morality from virtue ethics perspective. employ Buddhist approach conceptualizing sustainable person that is characterized by virtues, interdependent personhood, an inheren...

Human characteristics are the product of gene-culture coevolution, which is an evolutionary dynamic involving the interaction of genes and culture over long time periods. Gene-culture coevolution is a special case of niche construction. Gene-culture coevolution is responsible for human other-regarding preferences, a taste for fairness, the capacity to empathize and salience of morality and char...

Purpose I will discuss the prospect of pharmaceutically enhancing human morality and decision making in such a way as to eliminate morally unjustifiable choices and promote desirable ones. Background Our species in the relatively short period since it has emerged has enormously advanced in knowledge, science, and technical progress. When it comes to moral development, the distance it has cove...

In Zhuangzi’s philosophy, the intellectual virtues of humility and open-mindedness are best understood in context his epistemic perspectivism. The method, which urges knowers to pursue various diverse points view incorporate them into a broad perspective, is justified by second-order realization that all perspectives partial limited. This turn meta-virtue humility, defined as disposition become...

Abstract. The ethical challenges facing contemporary science range from scientific misconduct to the rightful treatment of people, animals and environment. In this work, we explore role virtue ethics, which concern character a person, in science. Through interviews with 13 scientists, eight whom are geoscientists, identify six virtues (honesty, humility, philia, innocence, generosity reticence)...

the essence of moral teachings of the old testament lies in human`s resemblance to god established in the shadow of obeying sharia in this world`s life. in the torah, therefore, morality and shari`at are inseparable from each other and in this way, provide an educational plan for holy life. sanctity is of both negative and positive sides, the former requires virtue and avoiding all sinful actio...

The use of equilibrium models in economics springs from the desire for parsimonious models of economic phenomena that take human reasoning into account. This approach has been the cornerstone of modern economic theory. We explain why this is so, extolling the virtues of equilibrium theory; then we present a critique and describe why this approach is inherently limited, and why economics needs t...

More than 700 years ago, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) wrote an epic poem about a man's journey through the afterworlds of Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. In his Divine Comedy, he catalogued the vices and virtues of people who had passed into those spiritual domains, in part to provide a valuable insight to us, the living. Dante described hell as a very unhappy and inhospitable place that had differe...