A VIRTUE ETHICS FOR HISTORIANS: PROSPECTS AND LIMITATIONS.
How feasible would it be to develop a virtue ethics for historians that is analogous or similar to virtue‐ethical approaches to research integrity that have been proposed for other areas of academic inquiry? The field of history is an interesting one, as few disciplines have an equally well‐document...
| Publicado en: | History & Theory Vol. 63; no. 4; pp. 3 - 23 |
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