Virtue and Character
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8107344 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A D M Walker (0000-0002-4581-752X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 249 |
| Pages | 349-362 |
| Publication date | 1989-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8191 • E-ISSN: 1469-817X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0031819100044703 |
| OpenAlex | W2027743414 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 46 |
| References cited | 4 |
Moral theories which, like those of Plato, Aristotle and Aquinas, give a central place to the virtues, tend to assume that as traits of character the virtues are mutually compatible so that it is possible for one and the same person to possess them all. This assumption—let us call it the compatibility thesis—does not deny the existence of painful moral dilemmas: it allows that the virtues may conflict in particular situations when considerations associated with different virtues favour incompatible courses of action, but holds that these conflicts occur only at the level of individual actions. Thus while it may not always be possible to do both what would be just and what would be kind or to act both loyally and honestly, it is possible to be both a kind and a just person and to have both the virtue of loyalty and the virtue of honesty
Action (physics · Character (mathematics · Character traits · Epistemology · Honesty · Moral character · Sociology · Theology · Virtue · Ethics in medical practice · Free Will and Agency · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Psychology · Philosophy · Social Psychology
Virtue and Constraints
Situations and Dispositions
From Situationism to Virtue Theory
Objectivity
Demandingness
Normative Dimensions of Virtue
Creativity
Conclusion
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
Love and Respect
Individuating the Virtues
The Enumeration Problem
Expression
Virtue and the Good Life
Virtues of Practice
What Makes a Character Trait a Virtue
Indeterminacy
Situations and Broad‐Based Dispositions
Magnificence, Generosity, and Subordination
The Anatomy of Virtue
Right Action and Virtuous Motives
A Virtue‐Ethical Account of Right Action
Phronesis and the Virtues ( NE vi 12–13)
Beginning and Ending with Eudaimonia
Competing Ways of Life and Ring Composition ( NE x 6–8)
Protreptic Aspects of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle’s Analysis of Akratic Action
Was Aristotle a Humean? A Partisan Guide to the Debate
The Relationship between Aristotle’s Ethical and Political Discourses ( NE x 9)
The Eudemian Ethics and Its Controversial Relationship to the Nicomachean Ethics
Philosophical Virtue
Happiness and the External Goods
Why Is Aristotle’s Virtue of Character a Mean? Taking Aristotle at His Word ( NE ii 6)
The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
The Unity of the Ideal Virtues
Moral Pragmatism as a Bridge Between Duty, Utility, and Virtue in Managers’ Ethical Decision-Making
What Knowledge Is Necessary for Virtue
Can virtue be unified? An Aristotelian justification on “unity of virtue”
A Missing Piece of the Contemporary Character Education Puzzle
Virtue Ethics
Practical Intelligence and the Virtues
A Dilemma for Particularist Virtue Ethics
| Unique citing works | 46 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2025 (23) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 46 |