Thesis
The seeds of virtue
- Alternative title:
- law and virtue ethical conceptions in Aquinas's ethics
- Abstract:
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There is a prima facie incompatibility between a law conception of ethics, in which law concepts (e.g. ought, rule, action) are basic, and a virtue conception of ethics, in which virtue concepts (e.g. character trait, ideal, agent) are basic. However, both conceptions contain elements that are needed for an adequate ethical account. Aquinas's conception of ethics is of interest, because it combines virtue and law components within a broadly Aristotelian account. I argue that Aqui...
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2000
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Source identifiers:
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602363303
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- Language:
- English
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- td:602363303
- Deposit date:
- 2014-07-22
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- Copyright holder:
- Horner, David A.
- Copyright date:
- 2000
- Notes:
- This thesis was digitised thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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