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Williamson, Eric Todd.
Virtuous Disagreement in Apologetics: Virtue Responsibilism as an Apologetical Response to the Epistemology of Disagreement.
Degree: 2018, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10392/5613 
► The two traditional views in the epistemology of disagreement have offered distinct responses to the challenge of epistemic conflict. The purpose of this dissertation is…
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▼ The two traditional views in the epistemology of disagreement have offered distinct responses to the challenge of epistemic conflict. The purpose of this dissertation is to challenge these responses and offer a satisfactory position. This position is congruent with
social epistemology as well as Christian apologetics. Chapter 1 introduces the epistemology of disagreement, giving attention to the concepts of disagreement found in the literature on religious diversity. This introduction also demonstrates that the two responses to disagreement possess features that are problematic for apologetics. Chapter 2 addresses the epistemic problems of the conciliatory response to disagreement. This chapter concludes that conciliation possesses an excessive view of testimony, and a low view of self-trust. Chapter 3 focuses on the epistemological matters of the steadfast position. This chapter maintains that steadfastness is premised on a deficient view of testimony, and an excessive view of self-trust. These two chapters show the internal deficiencies of both positions; thus, weakening their challenge against apologetics. Chapter 4 presents the position of
virtue responsibilism as a satisfactory and advantageous response to the epistemology of disagreement. This response is the virtuous response to disagreement. Chapter 5 expands on the natures of two intellectual virtues: intellectual courage and open-mindedness. These two intellectual virtues are particularly relevant to the discussion of disagreement and apologetics. Chapter 6 applies the virtuous response to disagreement with experts and the challenge of religious diversity. The chapter shows that conciliation and steadfastness are unable to provide satisfactory responses to these issues, while the virtuous response presents an advantageous response for Christian apologetics. Chapter 7 summarizes the main points of the dissertation, offering practical applications as well as areas for further research.
Advisors/Committee Members: Cabal, Theodore J (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Apologetics.; Social epistemology.; Virtue epistemology.
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Williamson, E. T. (2018). Virtuous Disagreement in Apologetics: Virtue Responsibilism as an Apologetical Response to the Epistemology of Disagreement. (Thesis). Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10392/5613
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Williamson, Eric Todd. “Virtuous Disagreement in Apologetics: Virtue Responsibilism as an Apologetical Response to the Epistemology of Disagreement.” 2018. Thesis, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10392/5613.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Williamson, Eric Todd. “Virtuous Disagreement in Apologetics: Virtue Responsibilism as an Apologetical Response to the Epistemology of Disagreement.” 2018. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Williamson ET. Virtuous Disagreement in Apologetics: Virtue Responsibilism as an Apologetical Response to the Epistemology of Disagreement. [Internet] [Thesis]. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10392/5613.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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Williamson ET. Virtuous Disagreement in Apologetics: Virtue Responsibilism as an Apologetical Response to the Epistemology of Disagreement. [Thesis]. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10392/5613
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of Edinburgh
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Palermos, Spyridon Orestis.
Extending cognition in epistemology : towards an individualistic social epistemology.
Degree: PhD, 2013, University of Edinburgh
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7972
► The aim of the present thesis is to reconcile two opposing intuitions; one originating from mainstream individualistic epistemology and the other one from social epistemology.…
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▼ The aim of the present thesis is to reconcile two opposing intuitions; one originating from mainstream individualistic epistemology and the other one from social epistemology. In particular, conceiving of knowledge as a cognitive phenomenon, mainstream epistemologists focus on the individual as the proper epistemic subject. Yet, clearly, knowledge-acquisition many times appears to be a social process and, sometimes, to such an extent—as in the case of scientific knowledge—that it has been argued there might be knowledge that is not possessed by any individual alone. In order to make sense of such contradictory claims, I combine virtue reliabilism in mainstream epistemology with two hypotheses from externalist philosophy of mind, viz., the extended and distributed cognition hypotheses. Reading virtue reliabilism along the lines suggested by the hypothesis of extended cognition allows for a weak anti-individualistic understanding of knowledge, which has already been suggested on the basis of considerations about testimonial knowledge: knowledge, many times, has a dual nature; it is both social and individual. Provided, however, the possibility of distributed cognition and group agency, we can go even further by making a case for a robust version of antiindividualism in mainstream epistemology. This is because knowledge may not always be the product of any individual’s cognitive ability and, thereby, not creditable to any individual alone. Knowledge, instead, might be the product of an epistemic group agent’s collective cognitive ability and, thus, attributable only to the group as a whole. Still, however, being able—on the basis of the hypothesis of distributed cognition—to recognize a group as a cognitive subject in itself allows for proponents of virtue reliabilism to legitimately apply their individualistic theory of knowledge to such extreme cases as well. Put another way, mainstream individualistic epistemologists now have the means to make sense of the claim that p is known by S, even though it is not known by any individual alone.
Subjects/Keywords: virtue reliabilism; extended epistemology; social epistemology
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Palermos, S. O. (2013). Extending cognition in epistemology : towards an individualistic social epistemology. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Edinburgh. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7972
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Palermos, Spyridon Orestis. “Extending cognition in epistemology : towards an individualistic social epistemology.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Edinburgh. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7972.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Palermos, Spyridon Orestis. “Extending cognition in epistemology : towards an individualistic social epistemology.” 2013. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Palermos SO. Extending cognition in epistemology : towards an individualistic social epistemology. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Edinburgh; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7972.
Council of Science Editors:
Palermos SO. Extending cognition in epistemology : towards an individualistic social epistemology. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Edinburgh; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7972
Princeton University
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Granby, Clifton.
Fruits of Love: Self and Social Criticism in James Baldwin and Howard Thurman
.
Degree: PhD, 2015, Princeton University
URL: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp019593tx44c
► Most accounts of prophetic social criticism in the United States focus on its history and politics. By treating James Baldwin and Howard Thurman as prophetic…
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▼ Most accounts of prophetic
social criticism in the United States focus on its history and politics. By treating James Baldwin and Howard Thurman as prophetic exemplars, my dissertation carves out an ethic to guide such practices. It argues that Baldwin and Thurman can be helpfully understood as models of self-care, as critics of domination, and as practitioners of freedom. Both model the dangerous possibilities of speaking the truth in love, but each does so from a differing standpoint. Baldwin mainly pursued his task as a writer and, Thurman, as a pastor. I argue that any attempt to account for their sayings and doings needs to be largely informed by their sense of vocation, their calling. Since the appraisal of
virtue and vice is always a contextual affair, to appreciate the ethical significance of vocation is to get a better sense of what excellence looks like in practice. Fruits of Love therefore aims to offer a more nuanced treatment of the ethical insights of each thinker. By highlighting the categories of love and vocation, it further discloses the differences between their
social visions, as well as the traditions of
virtue, care, and freedom that bind them together.
Advisors/Committee Members: Glaude, Jr., Eddie S (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Love;
Race;
Social Criticism;
Virtue;
Vocation
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Granby, C. (2015). Fruits of Love: Self and Social Criticism in James Baldwin and Howard Thurman
. (Doctoral Dissertation). Princeton University. Retrieved from http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp019593tx44c
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Granby, Clifton. “Fruits of Love: Self and Social Criticism in James Baldwin and Howard Thurman
.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Princeton University. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp019593tx44c.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Granby, Clifton. “Fruits of Love: Self and Social Criticism in James Baldwin and Howard Thurman
.” 2015. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Granby C. Fruits of Love: Self and Social Criticism in James Baldwin and Howard Thurman
. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Princeton University; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp019593tx44c.
Council of Science Editors:
Granby C. Fruits of Love: Self and Social Criticism in James Baldwin and Howard Thurman
. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Princeton University; 2015. Available from: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp019593tx44c
University of Toronto
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Garner, Renaud-Philippe.
Allons Enfants de la Patrie: An Analysis and Defence of Patriotism and the Social Self.
Degree: PhD, 2019, University of Toronto
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/95851
► My dissertation is a rehabilitation of patriotism as a virtue. The initial theory building corrects for the often vague or empirically unsupported characterizations of the…
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▼ My dissertation is a rehabilitation of patriotism as a
virtue. The initial theory building corrects for the often vague or empirically unsupported characterizations of the phenomenon. More precisely, I draw on the field of nationalism studies as well as research in economics and
social psychology to produce an empirically grounded account. On my view, patriotism is not analogous to personal loyalty because it depends upon a common identity and an intergenerational entity; it is a collective form of loyalty that engages with collective self-understanding. Moreover, I argue that patriotism is predominantly cultural rather than political as loyalty and identity predate and survive regime changes. My defence of patriotism is two-pronged. First, I demonstrate that Charles Taylor’s argument that patriotism is necessary for a well-functioning democracy is best served by a cultural view of patriotism rather than a political version. The key problem is that a patriotism dependent upon a purely political
social identity is unable to reliably sustain collective loyalty. Second, I argue that patriotism can make a distinct contribution to human flourishing through what I call deindividuated flourishing. Building upon insights from
social psychology, I argue that human flourishing should be understood in both personal and collective terms. The latter is characterized by collective self-understanding and collectivizing the parameters of success. Patriotism, by allowing us to engage in large-scale and intergenerational projects, allows for deindividuated flourishing.
Advisors/Committee Members: Hurka, Thomas, Clark, Philip, Philosophy.
Subjects/Keywords: Flourishing; Loyalty; Patriotism; Social Identity; Virtue; 0394
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Garner, R. (2019). Allons Enfants de la Patrie: An Analysis and Defence of Patriotism and the Social Self. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Toronto. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1807/95851
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Garner, Renaud-Philippe. “Allons Enfants de la Patrie: An Analysis and Defence of Patriotism and the Social Self.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Toronto. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1807/95851.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Garner, Renaud-Philippe. “Allons Enfants de la Patrie: An Analysis and Defence of Patriotism and the Social Self.” 2019. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Garner R. Allons Enfants de la Patrie: An Analysis and Defence of Patriotism and the Social Self. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Toronto; 2019. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/95851.
Council of Science Editors:
Garner R. Allons Enfants de la Patrie: An Analysis and Defence of Patriotism and the Social Self. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Toronto; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/95851
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Cornish, Sally.
How undergraduate students on a qualifying social work programme make sense of ethics : a phenomenological inquiry.
Degree: PhD, 2018, University of Bedfordshire
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10547/623252
► Ethics and values have long been central to social work and to social work education, with principles of rights and social justice underpinning social work…
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▼ Ethics and values have long been central to social work and to social work education, with principles of rights and social justice underpinning social work practice and accordingly, the social work ethics curriculum. In addition, and in more recent decades, ethics has undergone a period of heightened interest across the social professions. In social work, this is reflected in the burgeoning range of theoretical approaches brought to bear and the growing number and scope of professional ethical codes. However, empirical evidence suggests that despite this emphasis, ethical social work practice may be constrained in current welfare contexts, typically shaped by neoliberalism and austerity. The existing literature finds social workers responding to the challenges these characteristics present in different ways. Some appear to be compliant, or to circumvent stress by recourse to agency protocols rather than ethical reasoning. Others demonstrate resistance, while practitioners' experiences also include stress or isolation. However, there is little research evidence about what ethics means to social work students, and less still based in the UK, meaning that the evidence-base for UK ethics education is limited. In response to this, this thesis presents a qualitative, pedagogical study that investigated how sixteen undergraduate students in England made sense of ethics. Its methodology, interpretative phenomenological analysis, is based on phenomenological, interpretative principles alongside an attention to the particular, and facilitates close attention to individual meaning and sense-making. First, second and final year students were amongst the participants and the analysis of data gleaned in individual, semi-structured interviews provided a rich picture of their ethical concerns and understandings. The results of the study indicate that for these participants, ethics can be conceptualised in three domains, each with a respective focus on identity, relationships with service users, and ways of responding to organisational demands. Emphases within and between the three domains vary across and within year group samples, with the third especially significant for participants who had undertaken practice learning in statutory settings. There, patterns of both compliance and resistance are identified, and in this regard the study's results echo those more typical in the literature of those with qualified workers as their participants. The findings of the study contribute to the knowledge base underpinning qualifying social work education in the UK at a time when course delivery patterns are changing and social work practice and education subject to continuing external critique. They point to ways in which educators might engage meaningfully with students in order to facilitate their development into ethically aware and resilient practitioners, able to maintain value-based practice in challenging and constrained contexts. It is essential that that they do this if students, who will become the qualified practitioners of the…
Subjects/Keywords: social work; education; ethics; care; virtue; phenomenology; L500 Social Work
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Cornish, S. (2018). How undergraduate students on a qualifying social work programme make sense of ethics : a phenomenological inquiry. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Bedfordshire. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10547/623252
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Cornish, Sally. “How undergraduate students on a qualifying social work programme make sense of ethics : a phenomenological inquiry.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Bedfordshire. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/623252.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Cornish, Sally. “How undergraduate students on a qualifying social work programme make sense of ethics : a phenomenological inquiry.” 2018. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Cornish S. How undergraduate students on a qualifying social work programme make sense of ethics : a phenomenological inquiry. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Bedfordshire; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10547/623252.
Council of Science Editors:
Cornish S. How undergraduate students on a qualifying social work programme make sense of ethics : a phenomenological inquiry. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Bedfordshire; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10547/623252
Washington University in St. Louis
6.
Bauman, David.
Integrity, Identity, and Why Moral Exemplars Do What Is Right.
Degree: PhD, Philosophy, 2011, Washington University in St. Louis
URL: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/etd/34
► Many people think that integrity is a central concept for moral reasoning. Political, educational, and business leaders tout the importance of integrity for our…
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▼ Many people think that integrity is a central concept for moral reasoning. Political, educational, and business leaders tout the importance of integrity for our society's moral health. But there are reasons to doubt that it is solely a moral concept. Our intuitions seem to confirm that a committed Mafia boss may have some form of integrity. Or one might say that integrity is the mere expression of other moral commitments or depict it as a formal
virtue lacking any moral content. Others question whether or not it is even desirable or achievable. In this dissertation, I develop an account of integrity that defends integrity from these doubts and present it as a central moral concept. In Chapter 1, I distill a basic notion of integrity from the existing discussions. In Chapter 2 I answer the question, "Is integrity a moral concept?" In Chapter 3 I answer the question "Is integrity a
virtue?". In Chapter 4 I respond to an important empirical objection to the moral identity account of integrity. John Doris and Gilbert Harman argue that consistency of character is doubtful because situational factors often overwhelm a person's moral identity. The purpose of this chapter is not to contradict the findings of the
social psychology experiments presented in defense of their position, but rather to show that the moral identity account of integrity can better explain their findings. In Chapter 5 I take up another empirical challenge to integrity as a moral
virtue. David Luban claims that the quest for integrity is dangerous because we tend to rationalize our unethical acts in the name of integrity. I conclude that individuals can maintain their substantive integrity even when situational pressures and professional roles pressure them to compromise their moral values.
Advisors/Committee Members: Christopher Wellman.
Subjects/Keywords: Ethics; Philosophy; Social Psychology; Cognitive Dissonance; Ethics; Integrity; Milgram; Situationism; Virtue
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Bauman, D. (2011). Integrity, Identity, and Why Moral Exemplars Do What Is Right. (Doctoral Dissertation). Washington University in St. Louis. Retrieved from https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/etd/34
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Bauman, David. “Integrity, Identity, and Why Moral Exemplars Do What Is Right.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Washington University in St. Louis. Accessed March 08, 2021.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/etd/34.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Bauman, David. “Integrity, Identity, and Why Moral Exemplars Do What Is Right.” 2011. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Bauman D. Integrity, Identity, and Why Moral Exemplars Do What Is Right. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Washington University in St. Louis; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/etd/34.
Council of Science Editors:
Bauman D. Integrity, Identity, and Why Moral Exemplars Do What Is Right. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Washington University in St. Louis; 2011. Available from: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/etd/34
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Cheng, Nong.
The Fragility of Liberalism: David Hume and the Problem of Virtue.
Degree: PhD, Politics, 2011, The Catholic University of America
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/etd:120
► Degree awarded: Ph.D. Politics. The Catholic University of America
The Fragility of Liberalism: David Hume and the Problem of VirtueNong Cheng, Ph.D. Director: Claes G.…
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▼ Degree awarded: Ph.D. Politics. The Catholic University of America
The Fragility of Liberalism: David Hume and the Problem of VirtueNong Cheng, Ph.D. Director: Claes G. Ryn, Ph.D. David Hume has often been seen as a representative of interest-based liberalism, as distinct from, for example, Lockean, rights-based liberalism or Kantian, autonomy-based liberalism. This dissertation considerably revises or qualifies this interpretation by demonstrating that in Hume's political theory virtues play a significant role in motivating compliance with rules.The dissertation shows the importance of a distinction between interest as justifying rationale and interest as direct motive. Hume's argument for liberal institutions is essentially based on considerations of self-interest. However, he has deep reservations about self-interest being the motive for action. Given Hume's theory of reason and passion, he cannot expect people to be always clearheaded and to be constantly calculating relative advantage. Only preexisting, unreflective dispositional tendencies can ensure and explain strict rule-following. These dispositions form the core of liberal virtues.What is special about Hume's account of liberal virtues is that he juxtaposes the self-interest motive and the virtuous motive and has to explain their relationship. The typical liberal idea of the self-interest motive, understood as involving autonomous rational agency and reflective calculation, conflicts with the dispositional view of the virtuous motive. But Hume's notion of the self-interest motive is context-dependent, and the interests in the concrete contexts are diverse and heterogeneous. This particularized sense of interest is more like an unreflective tendency than a reflective calculation. As such it plays a major role in the formation of the corresponding virtuous motive and gradually gives place to the latter. The dissertation brings out that a stable liberal order cannot rely on either voluntary commitment or rational calculation, but depends on virtuous tendencies widely possessed by a people. These virtuous tendencies are shaped primarily through habituation, and their formation involves a protracted historical development and a particular way of life.
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Advisors/Committee Members: Ryn, Claes G. (Advisor), Walsh, David J. (Other), Schneck, Stephen F. (Other).
Subjects/Keywords: Political Science; Hume; liberty; self-interest; social contract; virtue
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Cheng, N. (2011). The Fragility of Liberalism: David Hume and the Problem of Virtue. (Doctoral Dissertation). The Catholic University of America. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1961/etd:120
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Cheng, Nong. “The Fragility of Liberalism: David Hume and the Problem of Virtue.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, The Catholic University of America. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1961/etd:120.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Cheng, Nong. “The Fragility of Liberalism: David Hume and the Problem of Virtue.” 2011. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Cheng N. The Fragility of Liberalism: David Hume and the Problem of Virtue. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. The Catholic University of America; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/etd:120.
Council of Science Editors:
Cheng N. The Fragility of Liberalism: David Hume and the Problem of Virtue. [Doctoral Dissertation]. The Catholic University of America; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/etd:120
8.
Cheng, Nong.
The Fragility of Liberalism: David Hume and the Problem of Virtue.
Degree: PhD, Politics, 2011, The Catholic University of America
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/9717
► Degree awarded: Ph.D. Politics. The Catholic University of America
The Fragility of Liberalism: David Hume and the Problem of VirtueNong Cheng, Ph.D. Director: Claes G.…
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▼ Degree awarded: Ph.D. Politics. The Catholic University of America
The Fragility of Liberalism: David Hume and the Problem of VirtueNong Cheng, Ph.D. Director: Claes G. Ryn, Ph.D. David Hume has often been seen as a representative of interest-based liberalism, as distinct from, for example, Lockean, rights-based liberalism or Kantian, autonomy-based liberalism. This dissertation considerably revises or qualifies this interpretation by demonstrating that in Hume's political theory virtues play a significant role in motivating compliance with rules.The dissertation shows the importance of a distinction between interest as justifying rationale and interest as direct motive. Hume's argument for liberal institutions is essentially based on considerations of self-interest. However, he has deep reservations about self-interest being the motive for action. Given Hume's theory of reason and passion, he cannot expect people to be always clearheaded and to be constantly calculating relative advantage. Only preexisting, unreflective dispositional tendencies can ensure and explain strict rule-following. These dispositions form the core of liberal virtues.What is special about Hume's account of liberal virtues is that he juxtaposes the self-interest motive and the virtuous motive and has to explain their relationship. The typical liberal idea of the self-interest motive, understood as involving autonomous rational agency and reflective calculation, conflicts with the dispositional view of the virtuous motive. But Hume's notion of the self-interest motive is context-dependent, and the interests in the concrete contexts are diverse and heterogeneous. This particularized sense of interest is more like an unreflective tendency than a reflective calculation. As such it plays a major role in the formation of the corresponding virtuous motive and gradually gives place to the latter. The dissertation brings out that a stable liberal order cannot rely on either voluntary commitment or rational calculation, but depends on virtuous tendencies widely possessed by a people. These virtuous tendencies are shaped primarily through habituation, and their formation involves a protracted historical development and a particular way of life.
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Advisors/Committee Members: Ryn, Claes G. (Advisor), Walsh, David J. (Other), Schneck, Stephen F. (Other).
Subjects/Keywords: Political Science; Hume; liberty; self-interest; social contract; virtue
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APA (6th Edition):
Cheng, N. (2011). The Fragility of Liberalism: David Hume and the Problem of Virtue. (Doctoral Dissertation). The Catholic University of America. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1961/9717
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Cheng, Nong. “The Fragility of Liberalism: David Hume and the Problem of Virtue.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, The Catholic University of America. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1961/9717.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Cheng, Nong. “The Fragility of Liberalism: David Hume and the Problem of Virtue.” 2011. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Cheng N. The Fragility of Liberalism: David Hume and the Problem of Virtue. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. The Catholic University of America; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/9717.
Council of Science Editors:
Cheng N. The Fragility of Liberalism: David Hume and the Problem of Virtue. [Doctoral Dissertation]. The Catholic University of America; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/9717
9.
Arjoon, Surendra.
Ethics of the good : an Aristotelian-Thomistic approach to corporate governance and ethical decision-making.
Degree: PhD, 2012, Teesside University
URL: https://research.tees.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/9c79456a-6aae-4a0d-9aab-769fece92058
;
https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.574686
► This integrating essay is based on an Aristotelian-Thomism in exploring ethical decisionmaking and corporate governance mechanisms to address issues of corporate deviant behaviour, and ultimately,…
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▼ This integrating essay is based on an Aristotelian-Thomism in exploring ethical decisionmaking and corporate governance mechanisms to address issues of corporate deviant behaviour, and ultimately, human flourishing. Eight (8) peer-reviewed journal articles analyse the causes of moral failings of corporate governance and ethical decision-making mechanisms, and propose to address these ethical deficits: (1) Virtue Theory as a Dynamic Theory of Business proposes a meta-theory of business that links the concepts of virtues, the common good, and the dynamic economy, (2) A Communitarian Model of Business: A Natural Law Perspective offers a communitarian view of business in defining the business organisation as one that incorporates its social purpose that acknowledges the primacy of people over profits, (3) Corporate Governance: An Ethical Perspective makes the distinction between ethical and legal compliance approaches to corporate governance in arguing the necessity and importance of the former approach as a basis for an effective legal compliance culture, (4) Striking a Balance between Rules and Principles-Based Approaches for Effective Governance: A Risks-Based Approach highlights the drawbacks of an excessively heavy reliance on rules-based approaches to corporate governance, (5) Ethical Decision-Making: A Case for the Triple Font Theory offers a comprehensive, systematic, practical approach to ethical decisionmaking that attempts to integrate virtue ethics into act-oriented normative ethical theories, (6) Reconciling Situational Social Psychology with Virtue Ethics attempts to reconcile the virtue ethicssituational social psychology debate, (7) Slippery when Wet: The Real Risk in Business identifies factors that contribute to corporate deviant behaviour from both an individual and organisational perspectives, and (8) An Aristotelian-Thomistic Approach to Management Practice argues that an Aristotelian-Thomistic humanism better promotes human dignity as it corrects the dysfunctional aspects and ethical deficits than its utilitarian naturalistic humanism counterpart. The failure to integrate an Aristotelian-Thomistic understanding of the virtues and natural law ethical principles of subsidiarity, solidarity, human dignity, and the common good into business practice threatens the stability and survival of the firm since they are required to correct the dysfunctional aspects and ethical deficits of certain aspects of market behaviour.
Subjects/Keywords: 658.4; virtue ethics; human dignity; human nature; social principles; common good
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Arjoon, S. (2012). Ethics of the good : an Aristotelian-Thomistic approach to corporate governance and ethical decision-making. (Doctoral Dissertation). Teesside University. Retrieved from https://research.tees.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/9c79456a-6aae-4a0d-9aab-769fece92058 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.574686
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Arjoon, Surendra. “Ethics of the good : an Aristotelian-Thomistic approach to corporate governance and ethical decision-making.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Teesside University. Accessed March 08, 2021.
https://research.tees.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/9c79456a-6aae-4a0d-9aab-769fece92058 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.574686.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Arjoon, Surendra. “Ethics of the good : an Aristotelian-Thomistic approach to corporate governance and ethical decision-making.” 2012. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Arjoon S. Ethics of the good : an Aristotelian-Thomistic approach to corporate governance and ethical decision-making. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Teesside University; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: https://research.tees.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/9c79456a-6aae-4a0d-9aab-769fece92058 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.574686.
Council of Science Editors:
Arjoon S. Ethics of the good : an Aristotelian-Thomistic approach to corporate governance and ethical decision-making. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Teesside University; 2012. Available from: https://research.tees.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/9c79456a-6aae-4a0d-9aab-769fece92058 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.574686
Linnaeus University
10.
Runwen, Zhu.
Environmental Virtue Ethics : Wildlife Tourism in Sweden.
Degree: Organisation and Entrepreneurship, 2018, Linnaeus University
URL: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-76288
► With the permission of Swedish Allemansrätten, the Right of Public Access, allows people to interact with the natural environment... . Environmental ethics, discuss about…
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▼ With the permission of Swedish Allemansrätten, the Right of Public Access, allows people to interact with the natural environment... . Environmental ethics, discuss about the relationship between man and nature, and is hence clearly connected to the questions of wildlife tourism. Great part of the previous literature has focused on the environmental ethics in tourism from the perspective of utilitarianism or deontology, with special concern in animal rights, animal ethics and animal welfare. However, questions like ‘what kind of people will do good to the environment?’, ‘What are the characteristics of these people?’ are among those that still need to be discussed in the field of wildlife tourism research. According to the theory of environmental virtue ethics, man's attitude towards nature originates from the internal quality and character of human beings. Whether it is the western scholars Thomas Hill and Geoffrey Frasz, or the ancient Chinese School of Confucianism and Taoism, they all put forward their own opinions on the characters required by the virtue ethics of the environment. In this thesis, documentary writing and network media records of wildlife tourists in Sweden are used as empirical materials to demonstrate the behavioral and psychological manifestations of the three characters of environmental virtues ethics. These three characters reflect the harmonious interaction between man and nature, and contribute in the theoretical discussions of of ethics in Tourism Studies.
Subjects/Keywords: Wildlife tourism; environmental virtue ethics; Confucian; Taoism; Sweden; Social Sciences; Samhällsvetenskap
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Runwen, Z. (2018). Environmental Virtue Ethics : Wildlife Tourism in Sweden. (Thesis). Linnaeus University. Retrieved from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-76288
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Runwen, Zhu. “Environmental Virtue Ethics : Wildlife Tourism in Sweden.” 2018. Thesis, Linnaeus University. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-76288.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Runwen, Zhu. “Environmental Virtue Ethics : Wildlife Tourism in Sweden.” 2018. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Runwen Z. Environmental Virtue Ethics : Wildlife Tourism in Sweden. [Internet] [Thesis]. Linnaeus University; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-76288.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Runwen Z. Environmental Virtue Ethics : Wildlife Tourism in Sweden. [Thesis]. Linnaeus University; 2018. Available from: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-76288
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of Minnesota
11.
Stoner, Ian M.
The reward of virtue: an essay on the relationship between character and well-being.
Degree: PhD, Philosophy, 2011, University of Minnesota
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/113599
► Most work in neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics begins by supposing that the virtues are the traits of character that make us good people. Secondary questions, then,…
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▼ Most work in neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics begins by supposing that the virtues are the traits of character that make us good people. Secondary questions, then, include whether, why, and in what ways the virtues are good for the people who have them.
This essay is an argument that the neo-Aristotelian approach is upside down. If, instead, we begin by asking what collection of character traits are good for us – that is, what collection of traits are most likely to promote our own well-being – we find a collection of traits a lot like the traditional slate of virtues.
This suggests an egoistic theory of the virtues: the virtues just are those traits of character that reliably promote the well-being of their possessor. In addition to making the positive case for character egoism, I defend it from some anticipated objections. Most importantly, I argue that character egoism doesn't inherit the problems of ethical egoism. I conclude by offering self-regarding accounts of two virtues traditionally thought to be irreducibly other-regarding: honesty and justice.
Subjects/Keywords: Egoism; Honesty; Moral Character; Social Justice; Virtue Ethics; Well-Being; Philosophy
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Stoner, I. M. (2011). The reward of virtue: an essay on the relationship between character and well-being. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Minnesota. Retrieved from http://purl.umn.edu/113599
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Stoner, Ian M. “The reward of virtue: an essay on the relationship between character and well-being.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Minnesota. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://purl.umn.edu/113599.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Stoner, Ian M. “The reward of virtue: an essay on the relationship between character and well-being.” 2011. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Stoner IM. The reward of virtue: an essay on the relationship between character and well-being. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Minnesota; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://purl.umn.edu/113599.
Council of Science Editors:
Stoner IM. The reward of virtue: an essay on the relationship between character and well-being. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Minnesota; 2011. Available from: http://purl.umn.edu/113599
12.
Dundas, Doris Hart.
Fielding's Creative Psychology: A Belief in the Good-Natured Man.
Degree: 1972, North Texas State University
URL: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc131578/
► The philosophy of Henry Fielding turns more upon a study of human nature than upon any stated adherence to a system of beliefs. The thesis…
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▼ The philosophy of Henry Fielding turns more upon a study of human nature than upon any stated adherence to a system of beliefs. The thesis of this paper is that he was a moderate law-and-order Anglican of his time, but strongly influenced by the deist Shaftesbury's studies of the psychological characteristics of men. These inquiries into motivations and Shaftesbury's advocacy of the
social virtue of desiring good for others seem to have helped determine Fielding's philosophy.
Advisors/Committee Members: Kirk, Gerald A., Snapp, Harry Franklin, 1930-, Belcher, William F. (William Francis), 1919-.
Subjects/Keywords: Fielding, Henry; Shaftesbury; social virtue
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University of Iowa
13.
Gouveia, Gleidson.
Philosophy and No child left behind: an epistemological analysis of the effects of educational policy on knowledge development.
Degree: PhD, Educational Policy and Leadership Studies, 2015, University of Iowa
URL: https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1844
► The purpose of the study was to identify teacher perception regarding the effects of NCLB on the development of knowledge among elementary school students…
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▼ The purpose of the study was to identify teacher perception regarding the effects of NCLB on the development of knowledge among elementary school students in two school districts in a Midwestern state. I applied a case-study design to address the research questions, with data obtained from interviews with eight experienced school teachers, who reported on the state of the cognitive development of their students. Epistemology, specifically
social and
virtue epistemology, served as the theoretical framework for the analysis of the data, thus filling a gap in the literature for an epistemological study of the effects of NCLB. The hypothesis for the study was that NCLB is detrimental to the development of knowledge among elementary students by placing too much emphasis on mandated standardized testing, and by limiting the curriculum to the subjects that are under the requirements for Adequate Yearly Progress (YAP). The analysis of teacher input indicates that NCLB hinders the development of knowledge among elementary school students. This is because educators are constrained by excessive testing requirements, and are thus not able to foster in their students the intellectual virtues necessary for the development of the lifelong learner, the student who is capable of and understands that learning continuous throughout one’s life. Future research is needed to link the scholarship on intellectual virtues to the education of school children, making of the virtues a central and intrinsic part of the educational effort.
Advisors/Committee Members: Bills, David B., 1953- (supervisor).
Subjects/Keywords: publicabstract; Educational Policy; Epistemology; NCLB; Social Epistemology; Virtue Epistemology; Educational Administration and Supervision
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Gouveia, G. (2015). Philosophy and No child left behind: an epistemological analysis of the effects of educational policy on knowledge development. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Iowa. Retrieved from https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1844
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Gouveia, Gleidson. “Philosophy and No child left behind: an epistemological analysis of the effects of educational policy on knowledge development.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Iowa. Accessed March 08, 2021.
https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1844.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Gouveia, Gleidson. “Philosophy and No child left behind: an epistemological analysis of the effects of educational policy on knowledge development.” 2015. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Gouveia G. Philosophy and No child left behind: an epistemological analysis of the effects of educational policy on knowledge development. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Iowa; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1844.
Council of Science Editors:
Gouveia G. Philosophy and No child left behind: an epistemological analysis of the effects of educational policy on knowledge development. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Iowa; 2015. Available from: https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1844
14.
Rugani, Marc.
Development as Growth in Virtue: Assessing Recent Development Ethics through Thomistic Virtue Theory.
Degree: 2021, The Catholic University of America
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/cuislandora:223925
► Despite improvements that the Capabilities Approach has made in the field of development studies and its ethics, three concerns rooted in its anthropological and ethical…
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▼ Despite improvements that the Capabilities Approach has made in the field of development studies and its ethics, three concerns rooted in its anthropological and ethical individualism remain insufficiently addressed by its proponents, especially from the perspective of Catholic social doctrine. The first is the persistence of viewing human persons as rational, self-interested, utility-maximizers. The second is the inability to convincingly incorporate notions of social personhood within the Capability Approach’s framework of liberal individualism. The third is the establishment of autonomy as the prime value and end of development theories and initiatives.This dissertation posits that by understanding development as growth in virtue rather than capabilities, one can retain the benefits that the Capabilities Approach has offered development ethics while addressing its liabilities. In the first chapter, I outline key contributions to the academic field of development ethics and introduce the concept of integral human development from Catholic social doctrine as a point for comparison of their respective visions for development. The second chapter assesses the Capabilities Approach with special attention to the work of its seminal thinkers Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, investigating philosophical foundations and key concepts which include: dignity, agency, justice, well-being, flourishing, and the common good. The third chapter proposes a virtue approach to development grounded in the thought of Thomas Aquinas and illustrates the ways it might meet and exceed the ethical prospects of Capabilities Approach. These include the advancement of the concept of habitus as a bridge concept between capability and functioning, an appreciation for the role that tradition and community play in virtue acquisition, and the perfective role that virtues play in leading a human person to the end of development understood as flourishing and the common good. In the fourth chapter, I explain important points of convergence that each of these two approaches has with Catholic social doctrine while identifying and responding to points of divergence regarding integral human development, concluding with an account of the special benefits that a Thomistic virtue approach can have for accommodating the supernatural horizon of integral human development without invalidating its natural and temporal relevance.
Theology
Ethics
Economic theory
capabilities approach, Catholic social doctrine, development ethics, integral human development, Thomas Aquinas, virtue
Moral Theology/Ethics
Degree Awarded: Ph.D. Moral Theology/Ethics. The Catholic University of America
Advisors/Committee Members: The Catholic University of America (Degree granting institution), Capizzi, Joseph (Thesis advisor), Mattison, William (Thesis advisor), Aguirre, Maria Sophia (Committee member), Barbieri, William (Committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: capabilities approach; Catholic social doctrine; development ethics; integral human development; Thomas Aquinas; virtue
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Rugani, M. (2021). Development as Growth in Virtue: Assessing Recent Development Ethics through Thomistic Virtue Theory. (Thesis). The Catholic University of America. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1961/cuislandora:223925
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Rugani, Marc. “Development as Growth in Virtue: Assessing Recent Development Ethics through Thomistic Virtue Theory.” 2021. Thesis, The Catholic University of America. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1961/cuislandora:223925.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Rugani, Marc. “Development as Growth in Virtue: Assessing Recent Development Ethics through Thomistic Virtue Theory.” 2021. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Rugani M. Development as Growth in Virtue: Assessing Recent Development Ethics through Thomistic Virtue Theory. [Internet] [Thesis]. The Catholic University of America; 2021. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/cuislandora:223925.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Rugani M. Development as Growth in Virtue: Assessing Recent Development Ethics through Thomistic Virtue Theory. [Thesis]. The Catholic University of America; 2021. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/cuislandora:223925
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Portland State University
15.
Stine, Anthony Philip.
Citizenship, Duty and Virtue: A Vision of Jefferson's America.
Degree: MS(M.S.) in Political Science, Political Science, 2011, Portland State University
URL: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/316
► In contemporary American political life, concepts such as duty to country and society often play a role in political discourse, but are often forgotten…
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▼ In contemporary American political life, concepts such as duty to country and society often play a role in political discourse, but are often forgotten in the lives of average Americans. The life of the average citizen is focused on issues of economic survival, familial matters, and the diversions that occupy persons. Devotion to country is made an at best secondary concern for Americans. The purpose of this work is to examine the concepts of civic
virtue that historically have dominated American political thought, using the writings of Thomas Jefferson and his influences as the primary source material for this effort, as well as the writings of modern western political theorists. Through this work, a conflict emerges between the values of western liberal thought and classic republicanism; to this end, a secondary purpose of this work is to reconcile those differences in an American context. Finally, a third purpose of this work is to offer a theoretical plan for re-connecting the average citizen with concepts of civic
virtue through a proposal for public service.
Advisors/Committee Members: Craig Carr.
Subjects/Keywords: Virtue; Rousseau; Cicero; Patriotism – Social aspects – United States; Citizenship – Social aspects – United States; Thomas Jefferson – 1743-1826 – Political and social views
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Stine, A. P. (2011). Citizenship, Duty and Virtue: A Vision of Jefferson's America. (Masters Thesis). Portland State University. Retrieved from https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/316
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Stine, Anthony Philip. “Citizenship, Duty and Virtue: A Vision of Jefferson's America.” 2011. Masters Thesis, Portland State University. Accessed March 08, 2021.
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/316.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Stine, Anthony Philip. “Citizenship, Duty and Virtue: A Vision of Jefferson's America.” 2011. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Stine AP. Citizenship, Duty and Virtue: A Vision of Jefferson's America. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Portland State University; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/316.
Council of Science Editors:
Stine AP. Citizenship, Duty and Virtue: A Vision of Jefferson's America. [Masters Thesis]. Portland State University; 2011. Available from: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/316
16.
Wilson, Matthew Blake.
What's So Private About Private Property?.
Degree: PhD, Philosophy, 2017, Binghamton University
URL: https://orb.binghamton.edu/dissertation_and_theses/21
► This work attempts to determine what kinds of institutions—if any—the state should implement to protect private property, and investigates how individuals and communities operating…
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▼ This work attempts to determine what kinds of institutions—if any—the state should implement to protect private property, and investigates how individuals and communities operating within those institutions ought to behave. Because the laws produced by such institutions may conflict with community rights,
social welfare, and justice, the political authorities—including judges and legislators—who operate the institutions must determine whether, and under what conditions, individual property rights ought to prevail over conflicting rights. I argue that considerations of privacy are necessary for making these determinations. Privacy—the condition that requires limitations upon the ability of others to access one’s physical spaces—has normative significance for moral behavior as well as for constitutional law and politics. Privacy’s value is promoted through private property rights, which are themselves shaped by the normative aspects of privacy. Because private property is valuable due to its intricate relationship to the promotion of privacy, states and communities ought to be able to infringe upon private property only to the extent they may infringe upon other privacy-oriented rights and interests. This infringement is encapsulated in the political act of eminent domain (or expropriation), which permits states to take private property for public use. Moral theory clarifies the role of law as political authorities use eminent domain to negotiate between private and community interests. In this work, I describe several such theories and then provide a contemporary property theory that claims the theory as an ancestor. I then ask the following questions: does this property theory facilitate eminent domain—the transfer of property from private to public—or does it make eminent domain more difficult by protecting private property against expropriation? I argue for a private property right that enjoys the same constitutional protection, known as strict scrutiny, as the privacy right, and conclude that the privacy aspects of property are best protected by a takings jurisprudence that v restructures the definition of takings based upon a reappraisal of the role of just compensation, a more narrow conception of public use, and a better understanding of how privacy interests can be objectified in physical spaces.
Advisors/Committee Members: Max Pensky, Chair, Anthony Reeves, Faculty Advisor, Anja Karnein, Member, Florenz Plassman, Outside Examiner.
Subjects/Keywords: privacy; Privacy Theory of Property; Virtue; Aristotle; Social-Obligation Norm for Property; Hegelian Property; Personhood; Eminent Domain; Philosophy
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Wilson, M. B. (2017). What's So Private About Private Property?. (Doctoral Dissertation). Binghamton University. Retrieved from https://orb.binghamton.edu/dissertation_and_theses/21
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Wilson, Matthew Blake. “What's So Private About Private Property?.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Binghamton University. Accessed March 08, 2021.
https://orb.binghamton.edu/dissertation_and_theses/21.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Wilson, Matthew Blake. “What's So Private About Private Property?.” 2017. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Wilson MB. What's So Private About Private Property?. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Binghamton University; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: https://orb.binghamton.edu/dissertation_and_theses/21.
Council of Science Editors:
Wilson MB. What's So Private About Private Property?. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Binghamton University; 2017. Available from: https://orb.binghamton.edu/dissertation_and_theses/21
Liberty University
17.
Mattson, Roy Michael.
Aristotle and Habituation: Is Virtue Really Attainable Without God's Help.
Degree: 2019, Liberty University
URL: https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/2214
► We are by nature moral beings who desire virtue. This fact is borne out by innumerable studies. Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Eudemian Ethics remain among…
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▼ We are by nature moral beings who desire virtue. This fact is borne out by innumerable studies. Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Eudemian Ethics remain among the most influential works on ethics and human moral psychology. Aristotle claims that human beings can develop good character traits and achieve virtue with the appropriate upbringing (what Aristotle called habituation). Much of what Aristotle says about character traits, virtue, and habituation is accepted today and inspires character education. Yet recent results in experimental psychology challenge the notion of character traits and virtue as understood by Aristotle. The challenge is the abundance of evidence showing that almost all human beings lie, cheat, steal, and harm others; we lack virtue. Christian Miller captures the problem when he says, “the burden is on the Aristotelian to show how realizing such a normative ideal is psychologically realistic for beings like us.” This dissertation argues that virtue is not a realistic ideal for us absent God’s help. I contend that Aristotle was mistaken about human nature and the power of a good upbringing to create good character traits and achieve virtue. Further, I assert that Aristotle’s mistake has been incorporated into the secular western world view and contemporary character education methodologies. The error is a total disregard, even disdain, for the role of God in human moral development. That said, there is much to like about Aristotle’s ethics and moral psychology. Aristotle thinks virtue and happiness are integrally related, and happiness is universally desired. This makes virtue incredibly important. Aristotle thinks virtue combines practical reason and proper desires to ensure a person consistently chooses the noble and good. He thinks a proper upbringing is essential to attaining such character traits and moral reasoning skills. Most of Aristotle’s claims in this regard are accepted to this day. Sadly, Western history, contemporary western culture, and recent social science contradict core tenants of Aristotle’s ethics and moral psychology. The West enjoys the highest standard of living, a plethora of human rights, universal secondary education with unprecedented access to higher education, and a well ordered civil society, yet virtue is exceedingly rare. It appears that humans are fundamentally flawed to an extent that Aristotle failed to appreciate. That flaw cannot be remedied by habituation. But, virtue is not impossible. In fact, there is evidence that virtue is possible, especially with the help of a divinely inspired moral transformation. The most obvious and frequent examples of virtue appear to occur in connection with a relationship with God. Yet Aristotle, contemporary ethics, as well as contemporary educational methodologies, ignore the obvious flaw in our moral psychology and ignore the role of God in addressing it. Using the Apostle Paul, Augustine, John Newton, and Franklin Graham as examples, this dissertation argues that habituation is inadequate, and to some extent…
Subjects/Keywords: Ethics; Aristotle; Habituation; Virtue; Transformation; Depravity; God; Moral Psychology; Human Nature; Self-Image; Philosophy; Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Mattson, R. M. (2019). Aristotle and Habituation: Is Virtue Really Attainable Without God's Help. (Doctoral Dissertation). Liberty University. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/2214
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Mattson, Roy Michael. “Aristotle and Habituation: Is Virtue Really Attainable Without God's Help.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, Liberty University. Accessed March 08, 2021.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/2214.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Mattson, Roy Michael. “Aristotle and Habituation: Is Virtue Really Attainable Without God's Help.” 2019. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Mattson RM. Aristotle and Habituation: Is Virtue Really Attainable Without God's Help. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Liberty University; 2019. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/2214.
Council of Science Editors:
Mattson RM. Aristotle and Habituation: Is Virtue Really Attainable Without God's Help. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Liberty University; 2019. Available from: https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/2214
University of Oxford
18.
Malone, Christopher David.
The foundations of international political virtue.
Degree: PhD, 2013, University of Oxford
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► This thesis provides the theoretical groundwork for a 'virtue ethical' account of international political conduct. The project begins by investigating the distinct patterns of normative…
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▼ This thesis provides the theoretical groundwork for a 'virtue ethical' account of international political conduct. The project begins by investigating the distinct patterns of normative theorising within international scholarship, noting not only that moral philosophical foundations are unpronounced and interchangeable, but that even in this diminished capacity the influence of virtue ethical thought is limited and fragmentary relative to its competitors. Redressing this underrepresentation is thus dually motivated: developing a fresh perspective on important global issues, whilst also subjecting the theory to an atypical angle of scrutiny. Adapting virtue ethics to the international realm requires, most essentially, that we settle the level at which its concepts should be applied. Can the theory’s central focus on character be reconciled with the collective nature of global political interaction? Can we accurately ascribe virtues and vices to governments and states? These questions of group agency form the heart of thesis investigation. Beginning from abstract foundations, the possible justification for such ascriptions is sought in competing theories of joint action and attitude. The 'individualist' accounts of Searle and Bratman are ultimately rejected in favour of Gilbert's non-reductive 'plural subject' theory, and - presenting group-level accounts of intention, motivation, practical wisdom, emotion and disposition around her concept of 'joint commitment' - a general model of collective character is constructed. Allied to additional requirements of moral responsibility, this framework is then used to assess the virtue-capability of actual political bodies, considering the decision-making hierarchy of the United Kingdom as a case study for the modern state. Tracing the route of policy authorisation across cabinet, government and parliament, a sophisticated yet ultimately impermanent picture of group-virtue-ethical agency is established, in tension with the notion of enduring state liability. By shifting focus to the national level, it is argued that this fluctuating footprint of agency can nevertheless be unified, modifying Gilbert’s notion of a 'population joint commitment' to tie institutional virtue and vice to a persisting state identity. This provides a template for international character evaluation.
Subjects/Keywords: 327.101; Ethics (Moral philosophy); Social philosophy; Political theory; International relations; Virtue Ethics; Group Agency; Collective Intentionality; Political Character; International Normative Theory
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Malone, C. D. (2013). The foundations of international political virtue. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Oxford. Retrieved from http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0f14f2a6-0d49-4c8d-8ebb-cb5af2cc444d ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.668707
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Malone, Christopher David. “The foundations of international political virtue.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Oxford. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0f14f2a6-0d49-4c8d-8ebb-cb5af2cc444d ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.668707.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Malone, Christopher David. “The foundations of international political virtue.” 2013. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
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Malone CD. The foundations of international political virtue. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0f14f2a6-0d49-4c8d-8ebb-cb5af2cc444d ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.668707.
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Malone CD. The foundations of international political virtue. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2013. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0f14f2a6-0d49-4c8d-8ebb-cb5af2cc444d ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.668707
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Rosén, Emma.
Social Media and the Virtues : Could social media be an obstacle to an individual’s ultimate happiness?.
Degree: philosophical and religious studies, 2019, Umeå University
URL: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-168276
► The work is a theory application thesis specifically applying Aristotle’s virtue ethicsto evaluate and discuss the potential implications that social media pose on the…
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▼ The work is a theory application thesis specifically applying Aristotle’s virtue ethicsto evaluate and discuss the potential implications that social media pose on the individual’s potential to achieve happiness as it is understood through the virtue ethics. It includes a close discussion of the virtues temperance and friendship, as well as empirical studies on the subjectand critical discussion incorporating the Aristotelian theory. It concludes that although a subject with many nuances, it is possible to argue that social media might be an obstacle to an individual’s happiness.
Arbetet använder Aristoteles omfattande dygd-teori från The Nicomachean Ethics för att undersöka hur sociala media kan påverka en individs potentiella lycka och välmående. Uppsatsen presenterar och diskuterar närmare ett par dygder; måttlighet och vänskap och dess relation till lycka och sociala media. Den diskuterar även empirisk forskning på ämnet samt innehåller en ingående diskussion om Aristoteles teori. Avslutande sägs det att detta är ett ämne med många nyanser, men trots detta kan man dra slutsatsen att sociala media kan ses som ett hinder för individuell lycka.
Subjects/Keywords: Aristotle; Social Media; Happiness; Eudaimonia; Wellbeing; Ethics; Nicomachean Ethics; Virtues; Virtue Ethics; Aristoteles; Sociala Media; Lycka; Välmående; Etik; Dygdetik; Philosophy; Filosofi
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Rosén, E. (2019). Social Media and the Virtues : Could social media be an obstacle to an individual’s ultimate happiness?. (Thesis). Umeå University. Retrieved from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-168276
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Rosén, Emma. “Social Media and the Virtues : Could social media be an obstacle to an individual’s ultimate happiness?.” 2019. Thesis, Umeå University. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-168276.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Rosén, Emma. “Social Media and the Virtues : Could social media be an obstacle to an individual’s ultimate happiness?.” 2019. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Rosén E. Social Media and the Virtues : Could social media be an obstacle to an individual’s ultimate happiness?. [Internet] [Thesis]. Umeå University; 2019. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-168276.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Rosén E. Social Media and the Virtues : Could social media be an obstacle to an individual’s ultimate happiness?. [Thesis]. Umeå University; 2019. Available from: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-168276
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
20.
Ulmer, Naomi.
Georgic Rhetoric, Virtue and the Commercialization of Agriculture in Pennsylvania from 1785 to 1870.
Degree: 2019, James Madison University
URL: https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/master201019/639
► This research examines how farmers in Pennsylvania between 1785 and 1870 were persuaded by georgic agrarianism to take social, economic and even moral risks to…
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▼ This research examines how farmers in Pennsylvania between 1785 and 1870 were persuaded by georgic agrarianism to take
social, economic and even moral risks to abandon a semi-subsistence mode of production in favor of commercial production. The georgic rhetoric is derived from Virgil’s poem “The Georgics.” It discusses agriculture and man’s labor in nature. Virgil discusses the relationship between man, nature and his ability, or inability, to control nature to ensure his own survival. Beginning in the late 18th century, supporters of improved agriculture, mostly wealthy and upper-class gentlemen, tried to persuade common yeomen farmers to produce for the commercial market. Yeomen were pushed to use new and experimental methods to produce the highest yields possible using the most efficient methods. Common yeomen farmers scoffed at the idea. They saw experiments of gentlemen farmers as a needless risk and expense. Supporters of improved farming started three georgic institutions in Pennsylvania to put yeomen at ease. First were agricultural societies such as the Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture in 1785. A distinct pro-improvement press began in the 1820s and finally, a state funded agricultural college in 1855 called the Farmer’s High School, now the Pennslyvania State University. In return for farmers taking on the hard work of manipulating the natural environment for the benefit of humankind, georgic agrarianism in the late eighteenth and nineteenth-century America promised farmers practical advantages as well as philosophical fulfillment. These benefits include, increased cash profits, a unique usefulness to the democracy and thus, most importantly, respect for their virtuous service providing food, fiber and fuel for the nation. In short, georgic ideals pinned hopes of sustained independence and prosperity, of individuals and the nation, on the improvement
Advisors/Committee Members: Philip Herrington, John Butt, Lamont King.
Subjects/Keywords: Georgic agrarianism; agriculture; pennsylvania; farmers; virtue; History of Science, Technology, and Medicine; Labor History; Other History; Social History; United States History
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Ulmer, N. (2019). Georgic Rhetoric, Virtue and the Commercialization of Agriculture in Pennsylvania from 1785 to 1870. (Masters Thesis). James Madison University. Retrieved from https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/master201019/639
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Ulmer, Naomi. “Georgic Rhetoric, Virtue and the Commercialization of Agriculture in Pennsylvania from 1785 to 1870.” 2019. Masters Thesis, James Madison University. Accessed March 08, 2021.
https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/master201019/639.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Ulmer, Naomi. “Georgic Rhetoric, Virtue and the Commercialization of Agriculture in Pennsylvania from 1785 to 1870.” 2019. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
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Ulmer N. Georgic Rhetoric, Virtue and the Commercialization of Agriculture in Pennsylvania from 1785 to 1870. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. James Madison University; 2019. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/master201019/639.
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Ulmer N. Georgic Rhetoric, Virtue and the Commercialization of Agriculture in Pennsylvania from 1785 to 1870. [Masters Thesis]. James Madison University; 2019. Available from: https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/master201019/639
University of Kentucky
21.
Van't Land, Andrew R.
Care Working Conditions: The Ethics and Politics of Social Reproductive Labor from Aristotle to Marxist Feminism.
Degree: 2021, University of Kentucky
URL: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/philosophy_etds/28
► The spectre of an inescapably divided working class has haunted every generation of marxist theorists, including the latest wave of marxist feminists engaged in the…
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▼ The spectre of an inescapably divided working class has haunted every generation of marxist theorists, including the latest wave of marxist feminists engaged in the research programme known as Social Reproduction Theory (SRT). In this dissertation, I will explain how Marx’s clear theoretical debt to Aristotle extends into the marxist feminist analysis of social reproductive labor and of the exploitation, class interests, and normative demands which condition such care workers. I will demonstrate how SRT can follow Marx’s own example in reading Aristotle, critically yet charitably, in order to resolve three problems. First, Aristotle’s original concept of use value (built upon by marxist feminists) can help to clarify how exploitation is mediated through hierarchical sub-classes. Second, one version of neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics, which borrows from feminist care ethics, can offer marxist feminism a ‘dialectical ethic’: as contexts change, so too should one’s requisite actions and feelings in order to keep a balanced character exemplifying liberatory virtues (e.g. care and justice) rather than reactionary vices (e.g. neglect and complicity). Third, Aristotle’s nuanced concept of the common good (despite its problematic hierarchicalism) can inform marxist feminism’s liberatory strategy, which involves transforming and aligning both the external goods (e.g. material necessities) and internal goods (e.g. virtuous capabilities) of each subclass in a patriarchal racialized class system.
Subjects/Keywords: Feminism; Marxism; Aristotle; Virtue Ethics; Exploitation; Common Good; Applied Ethics; Continental Philosophy; Ethics and Political Philosophy; Feminist Philosophy; Social Justice
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Van't Land, A. R. (2021). Care Working Conditions: The Ethics and Politics of Social Reproductive Labor from Aristotle to Marxist Feminism. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Kentucky. Retrieved from https://uknowledge.uky.edu/philosophy_etds/28
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Van't Land, Andrew R. “Care Working Conditions: The Ethics and Politics of Social Reproductive Labor from Aristotle to Marxist Feminism.” 2021. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Kentucky. Accessed March 08, 2021.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/philosophy_etds/28.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Van't Land, Andrew R. “Care Working Conditions: The Ethics and Politics of Social Reproductive Labor from Aristotle to Marxist Feminism.” 2021. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
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Van't Land AR. Care Working Conditions: The Ethics and Politics of Social Reproductive Labor from Aristotle to Marxist Feminism. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Kentucky; 2021. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/philosophy_etds/28.
Council of Science Editors:
Van't Land AR. Care Working Conditions: The Ethics and Politics of Social Reproductive Labor from Aristotle to Marxist Feminism. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Kentucky; 2021. Available from: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/philosophy_etds/28
22.
Agbagwa, Godswill Uchenna.
Towards Situating Solidarity in a Thomistic Understanding of Virtue.
Degree: The Catholic University of America
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/cuislandora:40838
► Degree Awarded: S.T.D. Moral Theology/Ethics. The Catholic University of America
Towards Situating Solidarity in a Thomistic Understanding of VirtueAuthor: Godswill U. AgbagwaDirector: Joseph E. Capizzi,…
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▼ Degree Awarded: S.T.D. Moral Theology/Ethics. The Catholic University of America
Towards Situating Solidarity in a Thomistic Understanding of VirtueAuthor: Godswill U. AgbagwaDirector: Joseph E. Capizzi, Ph.D. The idea of speaking of solidarity as a virtue of interdependence appeared in Catholic Social Teaching (CST) toward the end of the 20th century. As he travelled the world, Pope John Paul II (1978-2005) was struck by the widening gap between the "haves" and the "have-nots" resulting in widespread poverty and underdevelopment. John Paul II attributed this problem to the decline in the concern for common good. He then proposed solidarity as a "path to true development" arguing that in a de facto interdependent world, it is by embracing solidarity as a virtue of interdependence that we can be better disposed to challenge the status quo (SRS, 38). Although the phenomenon of solidarity is as old as humanity, its development as a virtue of interdependence in Catholic social teaching raises questions about its plausibility as a true virtue in traditional virtue ethics. While some thinkers argue that solidarity is more the absence of a fault than a virtue, others defend it as a virtue based on Thomistic virtue theory. Still, amongst thinkers that defend it as a virtue, opinions are divided whether it is a virtue of justice or charity. John Paul II, the first to name solidarity a virtue was not clear on this. This dissertation settles this controversy by arguing that solidarity is a virtue fitting in the moral virtue category, but occupying space of its own in the Thomistic schema. Thus, chapter one investigates the origin of solidarity as a response to interdependence prior to emergence in CST. Chapter two looks into its emergence in CST as a virtue of interdependence. Chapter three examines the concept of virtue in virtue ethics. In the light of the basic characteristics of Thomistic virtue ethics, chapter four argues that as a virtue necessitated by and particularly suited for contemporary interdependence, solidarity can be situated as a virtue fitting in the moral virtue category, but occupying space of its own in the schema.
Advisors/Committee Members: Joseph E. Capizzi (Advisor), William Barbieri (Other), William Mattison (Other).
Subjects/Keywords: Ethics; Theology; Social research; Catholic Social Teaching; Interdependence; Moral Theology; Social Ethics; Solidarity As Virtue; Virtue Ethics
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Agbagwa, G. U. (n.d.). Towards Situating Solidarity in a Thomistic Understanding of Virtue. (Thesis). The Catholic University of America. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1961/cuislandora:40838
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Agbagwa, Godswill Uchenna. “Towards Situating Solidarity in a Thomistic Understanding of Virtue.” Thesis, The Catholic University of America. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1961/cuislandora:40838.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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Agbagwa, Godswill Uchenna. “Towards Situating Solidarity in a Thomistic Understanding of Virtue.” Web. 08 Mar 2021.
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Agbagwa GU. Towards Situating Solidarity in a Thomistic Understanding of Virtue. [Internet] [Thesis]. The Catholic University of America; [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/cuislandora:40838.
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Agbagwa GU. Towards Situating Solidarity in a Thomistic Understanding of Virtue. [Thesis]. The Catholic University of America; Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/cuislandora:40838
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University of Oxford
23.
Tsakiropoulou, Ioanna Zoe.
The piety and charity of London's female elite, c.1580-1630 : the wives and widows of the aldermen of the City of London.
Degree: PhD, 2016, University of Oxford
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► Why was an ideal of elite women's virtue promoted in London c. 1580-1630, and why was it based on their reformed piety and charity? To…
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▼ Why was an ideal of elite women's virtue promoted in London c. 1580-1630, and why was it based on their reformed piety and charity? To what extent can elite women's piety and charity reveal their religious identity, among an elite characterised as 'puritan' by contemporaries and historians? How did women practise piety and charity in a worldly City, and did they share a civic ethos? This thesis engages with historiographies of urban history, the history of charity and hospitality, and gender history. It concerns over 400 wives and widows of the 331 aldermen elected 1540-1630, and uses 78 widows' wills. Women's wills are analysed qualitatively save to consider widows' public charitable bequests. From preambles to exceptionally diffuse bequests, wills are an intimate source for studying women's religious identity through their piety and charity. They reveal women's understanding of their gender in a patriarchal society that fostered an attitude of sorority that is particularly evident in women's charity and hospitality. To study the piety and charity of aldermen's wives extra-testamentary personal evidence complements the wills. Sources written by women themselves include a household book used to reconstruct a woman's charity and hospitality, portraits, devotional works and letters. Sources of praise and abuse authored by men including Stow's Survay, funeral sermons, verse libel and verbal abuse are used to reconstruct ideals and antitypes of elite female virtue and hypocrisy, and are read critically in comparison with other sources to furnish evidence of female piety and social conduct. Chapter II-VII focus on the conforming female elite, comparing contemporary discussion of female piety, charity and religious identity to women's lives and practice in the household and the community, and Chapter VIII considers three Catholic women to ask to what extent the civic ethos shared by reformed City women could accommodate even their recusant kinswomen.
Subjects/Keywords: 942.106; Charity – Religious aspects – Christianity; Women – Social conditions – 16th century; Women – Social conditions – 17th century; Virtue; London (England) – Social conditions – 16th century; London (England) – Social conditions – 17th century
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Tsakiropoulou, I. Z. (2016). The piety and charity of London's female elite, c.1580-1630 : the wives and widows of the aldermen of the City of London. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Oxford. Retrieved from http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1b933cc5-905a-4be0-b10b-a20aec49997a ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.722548
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Tsakiropoulou, Ioanna Zoe. “The piety and charity of London's female elite, c.1580-1630 : the wives and widows of the aldermen of the City of London.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Oxford. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1b933cc5-905a-4be0-b10b-a20aec49997a ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.722548.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Tsakiropoulou, Ioanna Zoe. “The piety and charity of London's female elite, c.1580-1630 : the wives and widows of the aldermen of the City of London.” 2016. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Tsakiropoulou IZ. The piety and charity of London's female elite, c.1580-1630 : the wives and widows of the aldermen of the City of London. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1b933cc5-905a-4be0-b10b-a20aec49997a ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.722548.
Council of Science Editors:
Tsakiropoulou IZ. The piety and charity of London's female elite, c.1580-1630 : the wives and widows of the aldermen of the City of London. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2016. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1b933cc5-905a-4be0-b10b-a20aec49997a ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.722548
SUNY College at Brockport
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clarkin, seamus.
Autonomy, Education, Virtue.
Degree: MA, English, 2018, SUNY College at Brockport
URL: https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/eng_theses/134
► The ways in which educators have tried to implement autonomy support have typically been constrained by their pedagogical interests and demands from above for…
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▼ The ways in which educators have tried to implement autonomy support have typically been constrained by their pedagogical interests and demands from above for certain threshold levels of performance. In our current educational system, this treats autonomy as a means to the end of measurement-based outcomes. The research on autonomy such as self-determination theory (SDT) often acknowledges the significance as a matter of background, but the actual ways teachers bring it into class is typically much more superficial than what might be possible with authentic cognitive autonomy support. Further, the innate status of the three needs put forth by SDT might imply we ought to facilitate their flourishing for their own sake, rather than for the sake of some measurement-based outcome. Rather than view autonomy supportive pedagogy as an instrumental means to an end, educators may benefit from considering autonomy supportive pedagogy as a form of pedagogical virtue which can be cultivated through practice.
Subjects/Keywords: autonomy; helper conundrum; virtue; education; self-determination theory; epistemic justice; capabilities approach; Curriculum and Instruction; Curriculum and Social Inquiry; Educational Methods; Educational Psychology; Philosophy; Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education
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clarkin, seamus. “Autonomy, Education, Virtue.” 2018. Thesis, SUNY College at Brockport. Accessed March 08, 2021.
https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/eng_theses/134.
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clarkin, seamus. “Autonomy, Education, Virtue.” 2018. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
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clarkin s. Autonomy, Education, Virtue. [Internet] [Thesis]. SUNY College at Brockport; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/eng_theses/134.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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clarkin s. Autonomy, Education, Virtue. [Thesis]. SUNY College at Brockport; 2018. Available from: https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/eng_theses/134
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University of Michigan
25.
Worline, Monica C.
Dancing the cliff edge: The place of courage in social life.
Degree: PhD, Social research, 2004, University of Michigan
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/124216
► This project takes a new look at courage, engaging psychology, poetry, philosophy, sociology, and the social sciences generally to enhance our understanding of one of…
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▼ This project takes a new look at courage, engaging psychology, poetry, philosophy, sociology, and the
social sciences generally to enhance our understanding of one of humanity's most basic virtues. The basic premise of this work is that a new image of courage, one that can capture in the phenomenon a variety of feelings as well as a logic of appraisal, must not take the individual as its starting point. Working inductively from myriad images of courage, the project builds a new theory of courage as a form of
social life. As such, courage is triggered by felt duress to the whole, and takes shape in the constructive opposition of individual life to
social involvement. Duress tends toward two familiar poles: the first, visible in images of corporate corruption, is runaway individualism that masquerades as heroism but ultimately self-destructs. The second, visible in the famous image from the 1989 uprising in Tiananmen Square, is an overbearing and oppressive formal structure in which
social life is not allowed dynamic movement. Courageous action arises from such duress when people in a position to act draw upon their capacity for individuated action to constructively oppose threats to collective life. The project tests this new understanding of courage by extensive analysis of over 600 stories of courage from knowledge workers. Findings illustrate that thee basic elements of this theory are necessary elements in courage stories. Findings also show that courage is more prevalent in work organizations than
social scientists have acknowledged, and that the experience of courage at work is related to felt beauty, vitality, and inspiration that changes people's sense of what is possible and opens the door for change. Through a variety of images from visual to poetic to statistical, this project makes the case that a poetic
social science, one that draws upon juxtapositions of multiple images, is better able to illuminate concepts basic to
social life. Through its structure, its method, and its argument, this work attempts to elucidate such a poetic
social science that is capable of embracing and illuminating something as mysterious as courage in
social life.
Advisors/Committee Members: Sandelands, Lloyd E. (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Cliff; Courage; Dancing; Edge; Individuation; Place; Social Life; Virtue; Work Organizations
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Worline, M. C. (2004). Dancing the cliff edge: The place of courage in social life. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/124216
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Worline, Monica C. “Dancing the cliff edge: The place of courage in social life.” 2004. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/124216.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Worline, Monica C. “Dancing the cliff edge: The place of courage in social life.” 2004. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Worline MC. Dancing the cliff edge: The place of courage in social life. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2004. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/124216.
Council of Science Editors:
Worline MC. Dancing the cliff edge: The place of courage in social life. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2004. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/124216
26.
Jalandoni, Monica.
Filipino Fortitude: Towards a Contextual yet Critical Social
Virtue Ethics.
Degree: PhD, Theology, 2015, Boston College
URL: http://dlib.bc.edu/islandora/object/bc-ir:104928
► The dissertation will contribute not only to an appreciation and critical evaluation of fortitude in the Philippine context, but has a wider significance for the…
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▼ The dissertation will contribute not only to an
appreciation and critical evaluation of fortitude in the Philippine
context, but has a wider significance for the practice of
virtue
ethics. The thesis is that (a)
virtue must be analyzed
contextually, in specific
social contexts, as well as (b) in
dependence upon the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition of the
virtues, that (c)
social virtue as well as individual
virtue
exists, and that (d) this
social, contextual,
Aristotelian-Thomistic approach to
virtue provides a basis for a
social-ethical critical evaluation and prescription for particular
societies. If
virtue ethics is to generate sound
social normative
claims, its argument needs to be based not merely upon the
classical tradition, but also on a socially, historically and
culturally aware analysis of the way virtues are fleshed out in
context. This dissertation will argue that the
Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition still has much to teach us about
courage or fortitude, and in dialogue with contemporary
social
science still provides legitimate moral insights into fortitude
today. Second, it will argue that
virtue takes on a particular
color or texture in specific
social contexts, and will argue this
in relation to the Filipino context: Philippine fortitude is
Thomistic, with unique attributes of resilience and joy. Third, it
will argue that it is necessary to engage in a
social-ethical
critique of
social virtue, arguing that there are deficiencies in
Philippine fortitude in that it lacks a crucial link with justice.
This critical evaluation will lead to the elaboration of an ethical
and
social imperative for the Filipino people to develop good anger
to fuel a less passive, more assertive fortitude that is ordered to
justice.
Advisors/Committee Members: James F. Keenan (Thesis advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Anger; Fortitude; Pasyon; Philippines; Social Virtue Ethics; Thomas Aquinas
…CONTEXTUAL YET CRITICAL SOCIAL VIRTUE
ETHICS
Introduction
Many books on virtue ethics begin their… …Philippines raises
important questions about the social nature of virtue and its relationship to… …therefore an exercise in, and argument for, a particular
approach to social virtue ethics… …today. Secondly, it will argue for the
concept of social virtue: that virtues are not merely… …Contemporary virtue
ethics has yet to fully re-present this political or social aspect of virtue in…
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Jalandoni, M. (2015). Filipino Fortitude: Towards a Contextual yet Critical Social
Virtue Ethics. (Doctoral Dissertation). Boston College. Retrieved from http://dlib.bc.edu/islandora/object/bc-ir:104928
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Jalandoni, Monica. “Filipino Fortitude: Towards a Contextual yet Critical Social
Virtue Ethics.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Boston College. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://dlib.bc.edu/islandora/object/bc-ir:104928.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Jalandoni, Monica. “Filipino Fortitude: Towards a Contextual yet Critical Social
Virtue Ethics.” 2015. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Jalandoni M. Filipino Fortitude: Towards a Contextual yet Critical Social
Virtue Ethics. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Boston College; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://dlib.bc.edu/islandora/object/bc-ir:104928.
Council of Science Editors:
Jalandoni M. Filipino Fortitude: Towards a Contextual yet Critical Social
Virtue Ethics. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Boston College; 2015. Available from: http://dlib.bc.edu/islandora/object/bc-ir:104928
University of Helsinki
27.
Purosalo, Jaana Milla Julia.
Life seen as a unity : Theological-ethical analysis on the narrative view of person in Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue and Paul Ricoeur’s Oneself as Another.
Degree: Department of Systematic Theology; Helsingfors universitet, Teologiska fakulteten, Institutionen för systematisk teologi, 2016, University of Helsinki
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/161705
► Narrative view of person, suggested by MacIntyre and Ricoeur, represents a holistic and teleological perspective on moral personhood. It recognizes the historicity of human being…
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▼ Narrative view of person, suggested by MacIntyre and Ricoeur, represents a holistic and teleological perspective on moral personhood. It recognizes the historicity of human being that appears in the narratives that an individual tells about his or her life, and the ethical character connected to this historicity. Consciousness of staying the same in the past, in the present, and in the future implies that person can take moral responsibility of his or her actions in relation to the others. On the other hand, understanding human being as historical affects the ethical judgment: actions can never be judged separated from the motives of the agent and the prevailing circumstances. Balancing between teleology and deontology, contextuality and universality, the narrative perspective encourages to embrace the perspective of practical wisdom to ethical judgment. Both MacIntyre and Ricoeur content that moral rules are necessary to create a framework for what is right or wrong. However, in addition to rules, evaluation relates to the overall vision of good.
Alasdair MacIntyre and Paul Ricoeur have different motivations to embrace the narrative approach on human being. MacIntyre thinks that the moral disorder reflected in emotivist tendency of the contemporary moral discussions results from rejecting the teleological view of ethics. Believing in the superiority of Aristotelian virtue ethics to provide a better basis for morality than the rational options presented by the Enlightenment authors, he builds his theory of narrative unity on concepts deriving from Aristotle: virtues, practices, traditions, and telos that expresses the aim of good life. Also Ricoeur’s view is teleological, appearing in his ethical aim of ”good life with and for others in just institutions,” despite that his starting point is different. On the one hand, based on his own analysis in Time and Narrative, Ricoeur thinks that narrative helps an individual understand himself both on historical and ethical level: in addition to collecting the separate events as a discordant concordance, narrative provides a place for ethical deliberation. On the other hand Ricoeur is aware of the ability of narratives to transform one’s character: encountering of narratives of religions, similarly as encountering narratives of others, affects person’s identity.
From the perspective of theology, understanding human being as a narrative self encourages both to connect to one’s own tradition, and to take the others into account in their singularity. Connecting to one’s religious tradition, becoming conscious of one’s roots by encounter with the narratives of one’s religious tradition or others representing the same tradition may result in a positive, ethical transformation that makes one open up towards the others and to function for the sake of the others: either in one’s personal life or on the level of institution. To take the others into account in their singularity from theological point of view could mean acknowledging the varying life-situations of individuals,…
Subjects/Keywords: narrative identity; narrative unity; virtue ethics; Ricoeur, Paul; MacIntyre, Alasdair; Teologisk etik och socialetik; Theological Ethics and Social Ethics; Teologinen etiikka ja sosiaalietiikka
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Purosalo, J. M. J. (2016). Life seen as a unity : Theological-ethical analysis on the narrative view of person in Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue and Paul Ricoeur’s Oneself as Another. (Masters Thesis). University of Helsinki. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10138/161705
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Purosalo, Jaana Milla Julia. “Life seen as a unity : Theological-ethical analysis on the narrative view of person in Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue and Paul Ricoeur’s Oneself as Another.” 2016. Masters Thesis, University of Helsinki. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10138/161705.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Purosalo, Jaana Milla Julia. “Life seen as a unity : Theological-ethical analysis on the narrative view of person in Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue and Paul Ricoeur’s Oneself as Another.” 2016. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Purosalo JMJ. Life seen as a unity : Theological-ethical analysis on the narrative view of person in Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue and Paul Ricoeur’s Oneself as Another. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Helsinki; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/161705.
Council of Science Editors:
Purosalo JMJ. Life seen as a unity : Theological-ethical analysis on the narrative view of person in Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue and Paul Ricoeur’s Oneself as Another. [Masters Thesis]. University of Helsinki; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/161705
SUNY College at Brockport
28.
Clarkin, Seamus.
Autonomy, Education, Virtue.
Degree: MSEd, Education and Human Development, 2018, SUNY College at Brockport
URL: https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/ehd_theses/1220
► The ways in which educators have tried to implement autonomy support have typically been constrained by their pedagogical interests and demands from above for…
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▼ The ways in which educators have tried to implement autonomy support have typically been constrained by their pedagogical interests and demands from above for certain threshold levels of performance. In our current educational system, this treats autonomy as a means to the end of measurement-based outcomes. The research on autonomy such as self-determination theory (SDT) often acknowledges the significance as a matter of background, but the actual ways teachers bring it into class is typically much more superficial than what might be possible with authentic cognitive autonomy support. Further, the innate status of the three needs put forth by SDT might imply we ought to facilitate their flourishing for their own sake, rather than for the sake of some measurement-based outcome. Rather than view autonomy supportive pedagogy as an instrumental means to an end, educators may benefit from considering autonomy supportive pedagogy as a form of pedagogical
virtue which can be cultivated through practice.
Advisors/Committee Members: Thomas Giblin, Dawn Jones.
Subjects/Keywords: autonomy; helper conundrum; virtue; education; self-determination theory; epistemic justice; capabilities approach; Applied Ethics; Curriculum and Instruction; Curriculum and Social Inquiry; Education
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Clarkin, S. (2018). Autonomy, Education, Virtue. (Thesis). SUNY College at Brockport. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/ehd_theses/1220
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Clarkin, Seamus. “Autonomy, Education, Virtue.” 2018. Thesis, SUNY College at Brockport. Accessed March 08, 2021.
https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/ehd_theses/1220.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Clarkin, Seamus. “Autonomy, Education, Virtue.” 2018. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Clarkin S. Autonomy, Education, Virtue. [Internet] [Thesis]. SUNY College at Brockport; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/ehd_theses/1220.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Clarkin S. Autonomy, Education, Virtue. [Thesis]. SUNY College at Brockport; 2018. Available from: https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/ehd_theses/1220
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
29.
Webster, Paul.
A critical analytic literature review of virtue ethics for social work : beyond codified conduct towards virtuous social work.
Degree: PhD, 2011, University of Sussex
URL: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/7085/
;
https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.554510
► This submission is based on a critical analytical literature review of the moral paradigm of virtue ethics and a specific application of this to social…
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▼ This submission is based on a critical analytical literature review of the moral paradigm of virtue ethics and a specific application of this to social work value discourse in search of lost identity. It echoes the philosophical academy's paradigmatic wars between 'act' and 'agent' appraisals in moral theory. Act appraisal theories focus on a person's act as the primary source of moral value whereas agent appraisal theories - whether 'agentprior' or stricter 'agent-based' versions - focus on a person's disposition to act morally. This generates a philosophical debate about which type of appraisal should take precedence in making an overall evaluation of a person's moral performance. My starting point is that at core social work is an altruistic activity entailing a deep commitment, a 'moral impulse', towards the distressed 'other'. This should privilege dispositional models of value that stress character and good motivation correctly applied - in effect making for an ethical career built upon the requisite moral virtues. However, the neo-liberal and neo-conservative state hegemony has all but vanquished the moral impulse and its correct application. In virtue ethical language, we live in 'vicious' times. I claim that social work's adherence to act appraisal Kantian and Utilitarian models is implicated in this loss. Kantian 'deontic' theory stresses inviolable moral principle to be obeyed irrespective of outcome: Utilitarian 'consequentualist' theory calculates the best moral outcome measured against principle. The withering of social work as a morally active profession has culminated in the state regulator's Code of Practice. This makes for a conformity of behaviour which I call 'proto-ethical' to distinguish it from 'ethics proper'. The Code demands that de-moralised practitioners dutifully follow policy, rules, procedures and targets - ersatz, piecemeal and simplistic forms of deontic and consequentualist act appraisals. Numerous inquiries into social work failures indict practitioners for such behaviour. I draw upon mainstream virtue ethical theory and the emergent social work counter discourse to get beyond both code and the simplified under-theoretisation of social work value. I defend a thesis regarding an identity-defining cluster of social work specific virtues. I propose two modules: 'righteous indignation' to capture the heartfelt moral impulse, and 'just generosity' to mindfully delineate the scope and legitimacy of the former. Their operation generates an exchange relationship with the client whereby the social worker builds 'surplus value' to give back more than must be taken in the transaction. I construct a social work specific minimal-maximal 'stability standard' to anchor the morally correct expression of these two modules and the estimation of surplus value. In satisficing terms, the standard describes what is good enough but is also potentially expansive. A derivative social work practice of moral value is embedded in an historic 'care and control' dialectic. The uncomfortable landscape is one of…
Subjects/Keywords: 361.3; BJ1518 Individual ethics. Character. Virtue Including practical and applied ethics, conduct of life, vices, success, ethics for children; HV0040 Social service. Social work. Charity organization and practice Including social case work, private and public relief, institutional care, rural social work, work relief
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Webster, P. (2011). A critical analytic literature review of virtue ethics for social work : beyond codified conduct towards virtuous social work. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Sussex. Retrieved from http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/7085/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.554510
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Webster, Paul. “A critical analytic literature review of virtue ethics for social work : beyond codified conduct towards virtuous social work.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Sussex. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/7085/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.554510.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Webster, Paul. “A critical analytic literature review of virtue ethics for social work : beyond codified conduct towards virtuous social work.” 2011. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Webster P. A critical analytic literature review of virtue ethics for social work : beyond codified conduct towards virtuous social work. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Sussex; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/7085/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.554510.
Council of Science Editors:
Webster P. A critical analytic literature review of virtue ethics for social work : beyond codified conduct towards virtuous social work. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Sussex; 2011. Available from: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/7085/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.554510
30.
Takamine, Linda.
Alcohol, Virtue, and the Making of Persons in Contemporary America.
Degree: PhD, Anthropology, 2017, University of Michigan
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/138608
► This dissertation analyzes how alcoholics undergo a moral transformation using Alcoholics Anonymous and other cultural resources. Based upon two years of field research among self-identified…
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▼ This dissertation analyzes how alcoholics undergo a moral transformation using Alcoholics Anonymous and other cultural resources. Based upon two years of field research among self-identified recovering alcoholics in Austin, Texas, I inquire into the central problem they faced when they were drinking, when they stopped, and when they were rebuilding their lives: the questions Who am I? and How should I live? Participant-observation in their recovery-related and day-to-day activities, analysis of face-to-face interactions, semi-structured interviews, and examination of diaries, letters, and emails reveal how their drinking selves were a set of relations between their bodies, alcohol, and material engagements with people and things in a
social world. When they stopped drinking, they learned to identify certain relations as virtuous or vicious, and reconfigured their habitual ways of engaging with the world to embody virtues.
Alcohol’s physical effects occur within self-interpreting beings with values and purposes. For people immersed in American self-help culture, alcohol is a tool for self-improvement and achieving
social goals. Alcohol’s effects – loosened muscles, lowered heart rate, euphoria – have any number of qualities. My informants picked up those relevant to their purposes. Those qualities became available as sign-vehicles that signified characteristics of
social personae they aspired to be: an elegant tango dancer; a man with swagger; a good wife.
When people stopped drinking, they built a new basis for living by avoiding habits that signified vices, such as dishonesty, and adopting ones that signified virtues, such as honesty. They learned to make these evaluations from other recovering alcoholics. They did not follow rules or norms. They learned a mode of moral reasoning in which they formed relations of likeness between instances of behavior, both theirs’ and others’. They learned to exercise
virtue at the right time, to the right person, in the right way, for the right reasons. Their interpretations depended on frameworks that include mood and American notions of ethical conduct. My informants also rescaled how they experienced their minds. When distressed, their minds seemed “big,” and they exploited the materiality of practices such as writing to make their minds seem “small.”
This work uses phenomenological and semiotic analysis to contribute to studies of personhood, ethics, and materiality. Studying addiction and recovery helps us understand the relationships between people and things in the world, the formation of disposition as an individual and
social process, and modes of moral reasoning people use in changing their dispositions. An analysis that links physiological and meaning-making processes bridges an analytic gap between biology and culture.
Advisors/Committee Members: Hull, Matthew (committee member), McClellan, Michelle Lee (committee member), Irvine, Judith T (committee member), Keane, Webb (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: addiction; personhood; virtue ethics; alcohol; phenomenology; semiotics; Anthropology and Archaeology; Social Sciences
…family, social pressures
to drink, no self-control, irrationality, and weakness of will… …the formation of disposition
as an individual and social process. It is a means by which to… …errands, spending time with them in their homes, and
going to their social gatherings. I… …relationships with alcohol than non7
alcoholics. Against social constructionist views of addiction… …rewarded virtue with wealth. Benjamin Franklin was influenced by these teachings,
and the virtues…
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Takamine, L. (2017). Alcohol, Virtue, and the Making of Persons in Contemporary America. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/138608
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Takamine, Linda. “Alcohol, Virtue, and the Making of Persons in Contemporary America.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/138608.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Takamine, Linda. “Alcohol, Virtue, and the Making of Persons in Contemporary America.” 2017. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Takamine L. Alcohol, Virtue, and the Making of Persons in Contemporary America. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/138608.
Council of Science Editors:
Takamine L. Alcohol, Virtue, and the Making of Persons in Contemporary America. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/138608
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