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Applying Virtue to Ethics
Author(s) -
Annas Julia
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of applied philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.339
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-5930
pISSN - 0264-3758
DOI - 10.1111/japp.12103
Subject(s) - virtue , virtue ethics , duty , obligation , action (physics) , epistemology , normative ethics , kantian ethics , epistemic virtue , philosophy , environmental ethics , meta ethics , sociology , nursing ethics , law , political science , physics , quantum mechanics
Virtue ethics is sometimes taken to be incapable of providing guidance for an individual's actions, as some other ethical theories do. I show how virtue ethics does provide guidance for action, and also meet the objection that, while it may account for what we ought to do, it cannot account for the force of duty and obligation.