How Aristotelians Can Make Faith a Virtue
Neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics identifies the virtues with the traits the fully virtuous person possesses. Further, it depicts the fully virtuous person as having all the cognitive perfections necessary for possessing practical wisdom. This paper argues that these two theses disqualify faith as trus...
| Publié dans: | Ethical theory and moral practice |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
[2017]
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Ethical theory and moral practice
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| RelBib Classification: | NCB Éthique individuelle VA Philosophie ZD Psychologie |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Practical knowledge
B Virtue B Faith B Trust |
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| Résumé: | Neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics identifies the virtues with the traits the fully virtuous person possesses. Further, it depicts the fully virtuous person as having all the cognitive perfections necessary for possessing practical wisdom. This paper argues that these two theses disqualify faith as trust, as construed on contemporary accounts of faith, as a virtue. For faiths role as a virtue depends on limitations of its possessor that are incompatible with the psychological profile of the fully virtuous person on the neo-Aristotelian picture. I argue that because of tensions internal to the standard neo-Aristotelian view and the compelling arguments in recent literature that faith is a virtue, the neo-Aristotelian has good reason to revise her account of virtue and picture of the fully virtuous person. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8447 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10677-016-9756-z |