Abstract
This paper distinguishes and evaluates six types of ethics of virtue, taking the mark of an ethics of virtue to be the denial that it is a necessary condition of perfectly moral personhood that one be governed by a sense of what one morally ought to do. Appealing to Charles Taylor's notion of strong evaluation, I argue that all such ethics of virtue are inadequate because they fail to leave room for a distinction between valuing and desiring.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 47-53 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | American Philosophical Quarterly |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 1985 |