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Self-governance in Aquinas and pre-modern moral philosophy.
(2003)
I conclude the dissertation by offering an account of why Schneewind may have misunderstood Aquinas in the way he did. I contend that Schneewind fails to see the full extent of the rise of divine command theory after ...
Naturalized virtue ethics.
(2003)
In Chapter 5, I place NVE is the space of contemporary virtue theories and also contrast it with eudaimonistic or welfare-based ethics and with evolutionary ethics. NVE is a good-based virtue theory, but it is neither a ...
Socratic dunameis: A tapestry of many threads.
(2003)
In the early Platonic dialogues Socrates uses the concept of dunamis, which is commonly translated as 'capacity', 'power', 'ability', or 'potentiality', in connection with his search for true knowledge of morality. He ...