EXEMPLARIST VIRTUE THEORY.

In this essay I outline a radical kind of virtue theory I call exemplarism, which is foundational in structure but which is grounded in exemplars of moral goodness, direct reference to which anchors all the moral concepts in the theory. I compare several different kinds of moral theory by the way th...

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Publicado en:Metaphilosophy Vol. 41; no. 1/2; pp. 41 - 58
Autor principal: ZAGZEBSKI, LINDA
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Jan2010
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