Most contemporary variants of virtue ethics have a neo-Aristotelian timbre. However, standing alongside the neo-Aristotelians are a number of others playing similar tunes on different instruments. This chapter highlights the four most important virtue ethical alternatives to the dominant neo-Aristotelian chorus. These are Michael Slote’s agent-based approach, Linda Zagzebski’s exemplarism, Christine Swanton’s target-centered theory, and Robert Merrihew Adams’s neo-Platonic account. What these four approaches showcase is the range of possible theoretical structures available to virtue ethicists. A virtue ethicist might attempt to define other normative qualities like goodness or rightness in terms of virtuous traits. But she need not. Instead, she might develop a theory in which virtue is fundamental but other normative qualities obey a logic that is at least partially independent of virtue. This chapter draws attention to an exciting range of possibilities for virtue ethics that both critics and advocates alike will want to explore.

Abstract Freedom of speech and speech responsibility are the two main concepts of communication ethics. The former addresses people’s freedom to say what they want or to remain silent, while the latter concerns the responsibilities people may have for speaking up and for the consequences of saying something or remaining silent. The traditions of consequentialist ethics and duty ethics provide conflicting normative advice about how to cope with communication dilemmas, where the alternatives can be to prioritise outcomes (the good) or conduct (the right). This chapter uses examples of decisions regarding transparency or secrecy about confidential information and i-deals at work to illustrate ethical challenges and dilemmas regarding communication.

... mean that they choose what is customary in preference to what suits their own inclination. It does not occur to them to have any inclination, except ... Alternatives to utilitarianism are deontology and virtue ethics. The 44 Thomas Nys. Hit the lights and jump in the fire, you’re about to enterthe School of Rock! Today’s lecture will be a crash course inbrain surgery. This hard and fast lesson is taught by instructorswho graduated from the old school—they actually paid $5.98for The $5.98 EP. But back before these philosophyprofessors cut their hair, they were lieutenants in the MetalMilitia. A provocative study of the ‘thinking man’s’metal band Maps out the connections between Aristotle, Nietzsche, Marx,Kierkegaard, and Metallica, to demonstrate the band’sphilosophical significance Uses themes in Metallica’s work to illuminate topics suchas freedom, truth, identity, existentialism, questions of life anddeath, metaphysics, epistemology, the mind-body problem, morality,justice, and what we owe one another Draws on Metallica

Executive Ethics in the Digital Age - July 1, 2025 Benyasiri Ngamsaad 1,* 1Pathumtani University, Thailand * Corresponding author: m.benyasiri@gmail.com Abstract This article aims to examine the essential ethical principles required for public administrators in the digital age. The study found that administrators across all sectors must manage to encompass the key functions of planning, organizing, leading, controlling, and monitoring, including change management and collaborative networking, in order to achieve organizational efficiency. Crucially, they must adhere to ethical principles in their decision-making processes prior to any operational undertakings, ensuring that the resulting actions are correct, legitimate, and aligned with the prevailing societal morality and values. The cornerstone principle of being an ethical public administrator is the steadfast commitment to upholding the duties of honesty, responsibility, transparency, equality, fairness, and respect for the rule of law. These ethical principles are rooted in the philosophical frameworks of utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics, social contract theory, rights-based ethics, and ethical economics, which collectively shape the normative foundations of public administration in the digital age, where digital technologies have enhanced efficiency and facilitated administrative processes. However, the study emphasizes that robust ethical guidelines and regulations must be in place to ensure transparency, acco

Applied ethics is marked out from ethics in general by its special focus on issues of practical concern. It therefore includes medical ethics, environmental ethics, and evaluation of the social implications of scientific and technological change, as well as matters of policy in such areas as health care, business or journalism. It is also concerned with professional codes and responsibilities in such areas. Typical of the issues discussed are abortion, euthanasia, personal relationships, the treatment of nonhuman animals, and matters of race and gender. Although sometimes treated in isolation, these issues are best discussed in the context of some more general questions which have been perennial preoccupations of philosophers, such as: How should we see the world and our place in it? What is the good life for the individual? What is the good society? In relation to these questions, applied ethics involves discussion of fundamental ethical theory, including utilitarianism, liberal rights theory and virtue ethics. ‘Applied ethics’ and ‘applied philosophy’ are sometimes used as synonyms, but applied philosophy is in fact broader, covering also such fields as law, education and art, and theoretical issues in artificial intelligence. These areas include philosophical problems – metaphysical and epistemological – that are not strictly ethical. Applied ethics may therefore be understood as focusing more closely on ethical questions. Nevertheless, many of the issues it treats do in fact involve other aspects of philosophy, medical ethics, for example, including such metaphysical themes as the nature of ’personhood’, or the definition of death.

understanding of what a virtue is — one rooted in the doctrine of the mean , and with a requirement that ... ten books of the Nicomachean Ethics , also common to the Eudemian Ethics ), and as a virtue of constitutions ... by care ethics is appropriate. A different model of response to the development of the virtue of justice ...

Over the past two decades it has become standard to construe Kant’s ethics as a paradigm of constructivism, standing in stark opposition to realism. Under such an interpretation, Kant’s ethics is based on constructive procedures that yield normative practical principles for us, rather than on facts about goodness that might ground such principles. While there is, no doubt, textual support for taking Kant to be specially concerned with such procedures, the motive for construing his ethical theory as constructivist is largely philosophical. Adopting such a constructivist interpretation would allow us to avoid the metaphysical commitments of realism, thus side-stepping the need to provide a metaphysical defense of the values in question, not to mention the difficulties of trying to explain how objective, non-constructed values fit into the metaphysics of the modern world and are consistent with the modern scientific worldview. 1 Onora O’Neill and Christine Korsgaard have developed detailed constructivist interpretations of Kantian ethics, which they believe are more satisfactory than realist alternatives. However, both versions of constructivism encounter significant philosophical difficulties, making it worthwhile to consider what a more realist approach to Kant’s ethics might look like. 2 1. O’Neill’s Critique of Rawls’s Constructivism Onora O’Neill develops her constructivist interpretation and reconstruction of Kant’s ethics in Constructions of Reason: Explorations of Kant’s

I. Introduction Contemporary neoclassical economic thought has been characterised by an "imperialist" tendency to broaden the field of economic modelling to encompass social practices conventionally thought to be outside the traditional domain of economics. This presents social economics with the challenge of formulating alternatives to an approach which seems invariably to draw from practitioners that it is reductionistic. This paper examines the relevance for social economics of Alisdair MacIntyre's conception of a practice as it is presented in his acclaimed book After Virtue (MacIntyre, 1985). Section II outlines the MacIntyrean notion of a practice. Section III then examines the extent to which the MacIntyrean scheme can buttress the basic philosophical foundations of social economics. Section IV then examines the relevance of this scheme to practices in crisis. Section V applies these arguments to a practice in which all economists participate -- that of economic discourse. The main arguments of the paper are then presented in Section VI by way of conclusion. II. The MacIntyrean Concept of a Practice In After Virtue Alisdair MacIntyre has vigorously criticized the Enlightenment and its influence on contemporary ethics and has called for a return to the Aristotelian tradition in moral philosophy. A key feature of the latter tradition is a teleological scheme within which there is a fundamental contrast between "man-as-he-happens-to-be" and "man-as-he-could-be-if-he-reali

Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates normative questions about what people ought to do or Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches include normative ethics, applied ethics, and metaethics. Normative ethics aims to find general principles that govern how people should act. Applied ethics examines concrete ethical problems in r Value… An…

application of the doctrine of moderation to the subject-matter of the various separate virtues . It takes us back to the Pythagorean ethics , one of the principles