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dc.contributor.authorRansome, William
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T13:50:37Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T13:50:37Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.modified2011-06-07T06:56:44Z
dc.identifier.issn13700049
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/33582
dc.description.abstractAgent-based virtue ethics strives to offer a viable account of both moral conduct and the source of moral value, independent of 'deontic' teleological and deontological characterizations. One of its chief proponents offers an agent-based virtue-ethical account that aspires to derive all moral value, including the moral status of actions, solely from the 'aretaic' concept of benevolence. I suggest that morality as benevolence fails to offer a viable account of either virtuous moral conduct or the source of moral value, because it is selfundermining in both respects. In order to solve this structural problem, it appears as if the theory may have to give up its agent-based status.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherPeters Publishers
dc.publisher.placeBelgium
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.ethical-perspectives.be/
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom41
dc.relation.ispartofpageto57
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalEthical Perspectives
dc.relation.ispartofvolume17
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEthical Theory
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPhilosophy not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPhilosophy
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode220305
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode220399
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2203
dc.titleIs Agent-Based Virtue Ethics Self-Undermining?
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2010
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorRansome, William F.


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