This paper presents a participant-centred virtue ethics approach, the Ọmọlúàbí moral-ethical framework, which moves beyond researcher-centred reflexivity to incorporate participants’ moral virtues within broader research framework. It demonstrates methodical application of framework during with rural Yorùbá communities in Northcentral Nigeria through principles continuity; adherence local and n...

Virtue ethics is often proposed as a third way in health-care ethics, that while consequentialism and deontology focus on action guidelines, virtue focuses on character; all three aim to help agents discern morally right action although virtue seems to have least to contribute to political issues, such as austerity. I claim: (1) This is a bad way to characterize virtue ethics. The 20th century ...

Aristotle's Politics does not itself articulate any consolidated account of how the nature and scope of inquiry into politics are to be conceived. For that we need to turn to statements elsewhere in his writings, and particularly at the beginning and end oftheNicomachean Ethics. Adoption of this expository strategy is just one index of the fact that for Aristotle ethics and politics are not two...

Virtue is cutting out the bad from life and taking only good. It refines moralizes human life. The principle of virtue to make man human. Although aware all virtues, he unable adhere them under certain circumstances. Thus, period when ruled in defiance justice, righteousness, honesty was a dark period. As result, poets that time, seeing this, were eager teach virtues through Pathinenkilkanakku ...

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...

Recent discourses about the legitimacy of homeopathy have focused on its scientific plausibility, mechanism of action, and evidence base. These, frequently, conclude not only that homeopathy is scientifically baseless, but that it is "unethical." They have also diminished patients' perspectives, values, and preferences. We contend that these critics confuse epistemic questions with questions of...

From Alexis de Tocqueville to Robert Bellah and Alan Wolfe, the many observers of the United States invariably call attention to its emphasis on individualism. In the popular culture of American television and movies, the autonomous individual stands out, whether as rebel against the system or as self-centered consumer of endless products, services, and other people. Then there are the advertis...