The Price of Virtue
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8096058 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne Margaret Baxley (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 403-423 |
| Publication date | 2007-11-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pacific philosophical quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0279-0750 • E-ISSN: 1468-0114 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0114.2007.00300.x |
| OpenAlex | W1974964909 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
Aristotle famously held that there is a crucial difference between the person who merely acts rightly and the person who is wholehearted in what she does. He captures this contrast by insisting on a distinction between continence and full virtue. One way of accounting for the important difference here is to suppose that, for the genuinely virtuous person, the requirements of virtue “silence” competing reasons for action. I argue that the silencing interpretation is not compelling. As Aristotle rightly saw, virtue can have a cost, and a mark of the wise person is that she recognizes it
Action (physics · Aesthetics · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Silence · Virtue · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy
Complex Harmony
Silencing, Psychological Conflict, and the Distinction Between Virtue and Self-Control
Continence, temperance, and motivational conflict
The focus of virtue
Must your reasons move you
Beyond Silencing
Human Agency and Virtue Ethics
Empathy with vicious perspectives? A puzzle about the moral limits of empathetic imagination
Moral agency under oppression
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |