Virtue, reasons, and moral methodology

Thesis

Philosophers often fail to be virtuous. So too do ordinary folk. This is a problem for philosophy because moral theories are tested against philosophers’ moral intuitions and the prescriptions of ordinary morality; if these sources of philosophical data are rendered unreliable by the failure of philosophers and ordinary folk to be virtuous, then they will lead our theorising astray. Chapter One motivates and defends a remedy: rather than relying so heavily on these sources of data to provi...

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Authors: Arridge, A

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-d5qbppege
• Type of award: DPhil
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: virtue; moral methodology; balancing view; ought; reasons