Solidarity as Acknowledged Dependence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21779258 |
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| Authors | Philip Schwarz (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 202-222 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Eurostudia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1718-8946 • E-ISSN: 1718-8946 |
| Publisher | Consortium Erudit (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.7202/1113651ar |
| OpenAlex | W4403092397 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
In the light of a virtue-ethical turn in the ethics of public health, I discuss the call for solidarity in the pandemic. I develop a reading of Alasdair MacIntyre’s concept of Acknowledged Dependence to provide a basis for a virtue-ethical account of solidarity. Virtues enable correct responses to characteristic experiences of a human life. Solidarity and compassion correspond to the experience of mutual dependence in a way that is conducive to the common good. Compliance with precautions against the pandemic can be understood as exercises of uncalculating giving in the context of a community in which everyone owes this uncalculating giving to everyone else and, in this sense, acts of solidarity
Economics · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · Solidarity · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
Aristotle on Learning to Be Good
Addressing complex hospital discharge by cultivating the virtues of acknowledged dependence
Virtue as a response to pandemic and crisis
The Nature of the Virtues
Moral Virtue as Knowledge of Human Form
Solidarity in Conflict
Aristotle’s virtue ethics as a conceptual framework for the study and practice of social work in modern times
Natural Goodness
Non-Relative Virtues
| Highly cited | No |
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