Andrew Aberdein recently explored whether Aristotle held a (proto-)virtue argumentation theory, which would evaluate good argument in terms of the arguers engaged virtuously. admits, however, that connections between virtue, character, and are scarce within Aristotle's works. Accordingly, here Cassie Finley approaches this question from different angle, comparing concepts dialectic rhetoric wit...

Abstract Situationists maintain that psychological evidence (e.g., the well-known Good Samaritan experiment) challenges a key assumption of virtue ethics, namely virtuous people display cross-situational consistency behavior. This situationist critique is frequently thought to pose serious threat ethics. Virtue ethicists have so far mainly put forward conceptual rather than empirical arguments ...