Directory of Virtue Theory Resources

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Virtue theory is the branch of ethics that founds morality upon disposition: ie. how it is we know choose between courses of action and our motivations in acting upon our decisions. As such it is in oppsition to the main strand of moral theorising which is concerned with goods (ie. the ends of those choices and actions).

Resources in This Category

• Ethics and Virtue

  http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/decision/ethicsandvirtue.html
  Short article discussing the relationship of ethics and virtue in decision making. Appears at the Ethics Connection, a centre at Santa Clara University.

• Virtue Epistemology

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology-virtue/
  An approach in epistemology that applies the resources of virtue theory to problems in the theory of knowledge. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by John Greco.

• Virtue Ethics in the Ancient World

  http://www.uh.edu/~cfreelan/courses/Virtues.html
  Graduate seminar series organised by Cynthia Freeland at the University of Houston.

• Virtue Theory

  http://www.iep.utm.edu/virtue/
  Entry in the Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy.

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