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January 1, 2025
This chapter argues that legal human rights should be distinguished from moral human rights. I begin by examining various proposals for how to identify the difference between human rights and other kinds of rights. At least two proposals for how to do this ...
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November 23, 2017
This chapter discusses the direction of epistemological priority between traits and actions in the definition of virtue. Do we first identify a character trait as kind, say, and only then identify its characteristic expressions as kind acts? Or do we ident ...
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January 1, 2017
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2013
Traditional philosophical theories of virtue define a “virtue” as a species of character trait. Many contemporary philosophical theories of virtue follow suit, though not all do. Adopting this traditional definition exposes a theory of virtue to what has c ...
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December 1, 2012
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2012
© 2012 Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. This chapter discusses non-ideal theory of justice and its significance in bioethics, with special emphasis on distributive justice. The two major branches of this theory are an innovation of John Rawls. ...
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