A Theory of virtue
Excellence in Being for the Good
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8068396 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Merrihew Adams (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | THEORY OF VIRTUE: EXCELLENCE IN BEING FOR THE GOOD. (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199207510.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W1596390162 |
| ISBN | 9780199207510 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 122 |
| References cited | 53 |
Presenting and defending a conception of virtue as intrinsic excellence of character, worth prizing for its own sake and not only for its benefits, this work addresses two challenges to the ancient idea of excellence of character. It offers a framework for thinking about the moral evaluation of character
Acknowledgement · Altruism (biology · Analogy · Character (mathematics · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemic virtue · Epistemology · Excellence · Luck · Moral character · Plural · Preference · Sociology · Virtue · Virtue ethics · Wickedness · Ethics in medical practice · Free Will and Agency · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Psychology · Theology and Philosophy of Evil · Philosophy · Social Psychology
Commonsense morality and the bearable automaticity of being
Impeccability and perfect virtue
Phronesis and the Knowledge-Action Gap in Moral Psychology and Moral Education
Consequentialism, Virtue, and Character
Learning to Live Naturally
Kant's Doctrine of Virtue
The moral psychology handbook
Citizenship and the Pursuit of the Worthy Life
The Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics
The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945–2015
Situations and Dispositions
From Situationism to Virtue Theory
Right Action and ‘The Virtuous Person’
Phronesis and the Unity of the Virtues
Practical Intelligence and the Virtues
Responsibility for Character
Right Action for Virtue Ethics
Individuating the Virtues
The Enumeration Problem
Practical Intelligence and the Virtues
Situations and Broad‐Based Dispositions
Magnificence, Generosity, and Subordination
Right Action and Virtuous Motives
Phronesis and the Virtues ( NE vi 12–13)
Wirkung
Maximus the Confessor
Moral Character
Virtue ethics in the medieval period
The Analects and Moral Theory
Taking Utilitarianism Seriously
Qurʾanic Ethics and Islamic Law
Integrity in Professional Life
Being Judgmental–A vice of attention
Honesty and the Truth
The Virtue of Being Supportive
Disunity of Virtue
Virtue Signaling Without Vanity
Having a Sense of Humor as a Virtue
On the weighting of homo economicus and homo virtus in human behaviour
Integrating the humanities and the social sciences
Virtue, Environmental Ethics, Nonhuman Values, and Anthropocentrism
Does MacIntyre's Moral Sociology Presuppose a Personalist Moral Psychology? MacIntyre and Tomasello on Moral Psychology
The Emerging Science of Virtue
The problem of virtue translation from sports
How Philosophy can Contribute to Developing a Science of Virtue
Aptness Isn’t Enough
Motivation and the Virtue of Honesty
How Situationism Impacts the Goals of Character Education
The Virtues of Will-Power – from a Philosophical & Psychological Perspective
Non-Ideal Virtue and Situationism
The Virtue of Hope in a Turbulent World
Integrity as the Goal of Character Education
Virtues disunited and the folk psychology of character
What is a science of virtue
Moral self-determination
Fitting Moral Admiration
Take a Stand, You Don’t Have to Make a Difference
Truthfulness Predominates in Americans’ Conceptualizations of Honesty
In Defence of the Pauline Principle
Virtues are excellences
Being Open-Minded about Open-Mindedness
Virtues as reasons structures
Situationism, capacities and culpability
Symbolic value and the limits of good‐for theory
Aquinas's Fourth Way, Beauty, and Virtues
Thick and Perceptual Moral Beauty
Prudence in end-of-life decision making
The concepts of virtue after the „character – situation” debate
Ethical Issues in U.S. Presidential Leadership
A Situationist Lesson for Character Education
Exploring the “unity” of the virtues
Where psychological science meets moral theory
Psychology and the death of aspiration
Life, death, and ontology
Will big data algorithms dismantle the foundations of liberalism
The Emotional Impact of Evil
Good Life, Brave Death, and Earned Immortality
Hope and Christian Ethics
On the Intellectual Vice of Epistemic Apathy
Building a developmental science of redemption
“Deepfakes and Dishonesty”
The Ambitions of Consequentialism
Emergent virtues
Axiology and Agathology
Personal ideals and the ideal of rational agency 1
Desire and Goodness
Eudaimonism Without Virtue
Perceptions of Self-Love Among Orthodox Christians
Rethinking future uncertainty in the shadow of Covid 19
After Tradition
Searching for character and the role of schools
The Moral Power of Jim
Are Moral Values Overriding? How Beauty Challenges Robert Adams’s Theory of Value
Against Metaethical Imperialism
Excellence‐Prior Eudaimonism
Covenants and Commands
Eudaimonism, Virtue, and Self‐Sacrifice
Forgetting and the Task of Seeing
Aquinas and the Democratic Virtues
Contempt and the Cultivation of Character
Uneasy Virtue
Critique of Pure Reason
Lack of Character
Morals from Motives
Virtues of the Mind
The Schizophrenia of Modern Ethical Theories
Rethinking Intrinsic Value
Desiring the Bad
Situationism and Virtue Ethics on the Content of Our Character
XIV—Moral Philosophy Meets Social Psychology
Obedience to authority
The Modularity of Mind
Religion and Rational Theology
A Theory of Justice
Autonomy and Self-Respect
The Unity of Virtue
Essays on Aristotle’s Ethics
Prospects for a Common Morality
Moral Saints
Moral Exemplars
David Hume
Scanlon's Contractualism
Will Power and the Virtues
Two Distinctions in Goodness
Involuntary Sins
The Concept of the Highest Good in Kant's Moral Theory
Anti‐Consequentialism and the Transcendence of the Good
British Moralists; Being Selections from Writers Principally of the Eighteenth Century
The Morally Decent Person
Virtue Ethics
Happy Lives and the Highest Good
The Rejection of Consequentialism
The Structure of Virtue
From Jerusalem to Jericho
Motive Utilitarianism
John Donne's People
Effect of feeling good on helping
| Unique citing works | 122 |
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| Citations per year | 6,78 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 119 |