The Virtue Ethics Working Group will investigate the role of the virtues in students’ well-being, whole-person pedagogy, and civic engagement. Our goal is to develop and implement a longitudinal study ...

Virtue ethics, rooted in Aristotelian philosophy, emphasises the development of individual character and the cultivation of virtues as central to moral conduct. In the context of business ethics, this ...

Our colleague Shannon Vallor, associate professor and chair of Santa Clara University’s Philosophy department (and an MCAE faculty scholar), has an upcoming book due to be published in August by ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this paper I examine and assess an important developing trend in environmental ethics, environmental virtue ethics. I begin by providing a ...

What is the point of ethics? Is it to understand what moral rules or principles we ought to follow? Is it to understand the nature of right and wrong? Is it to come up with a foolproof definition of ...

Companies often promote a particular set of values through a corporate mission statement, code of ethics or slogan. The extent to which individual employees apply these values on a day-to-day basis ...

Moral luck poses a problem for out conception of responsibility because it highlights a tension between morality and lack of control. Michael Slote's common-sense virtue ethics claims to avoid this ...

We heap praise on heroes. But what if their heroism is very annoying to us, making us look and feel bad? If someone makes you feel bad about yourself, are they in the wrong? You would think the answer ...

Spider-Man 2 This iconic line from Spider-Man 2 questions more than intelligence — it invokes a deeper understanding of moral ...