Tag: Prudence
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Bits and Pieces: The Obligatory; The Supererogatory; Prudential Cases; Arguments.
by Daniel A. Kaufman ___ [1] Philosophers sacralize moral obligation and maintain that moral considerations are always overriding of all others, and yet ordinary people (as well as philosophers in their ordinary lives) hold actions done from earnest desire in much higher esteem than those done from duty. “Don’t just do it out of a…
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What a Man’s Gotta’ Do: Virtue Ethics and The Situationally Prudent
by E. John Winner ___ Virtue ethics is an attempt to find a code of behavior within one’s self. This may, as with the Stoa or the Tao, be a living through of some logic or being of the natural order of the universe, but it is not an attempt to find a moral reality…