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Showing posts with label virtue ethics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label virtue ethics. Show all posts
Monday, November 30, 2015

Racism, Samaritans, and Saints

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As I've read news about recent protests on campuses across the country I've often wondered how I could respond helpfully if I were...
Monday, September 23, 2013

"What We Need Right Now"

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From my latest contribution to the "God's Politics" blog at Sojourners : "Any right-thinking stranger on our shores ...
Friday, August 23, 2013

Thoreau: We Still Have Choices

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“ The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation ….When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the true end of man, and w...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Leopold On Sport And Ethics

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“Voluntary adherence to an ethical code elevates the self-respect of the sportsman, but it should not be forgotten that voluntary disregar...

Telling The Story Of Our Common Wealth

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In his essay "Common Wealth," Scott Russell Sanders quotes Jean-Jacques Rousseau: "The first man who, having enclosed a pi...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Armed in Anxiety

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My article on guns, fear, and virtue ethics, now accessible at The Chronicle of Higher Education :  W hat do guns do for us? Many opponen...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Surveillance and Virtue

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The recent news that a no-fly zone was enacted over the site of the Exxon tar sands pipeline spill in Arkansas is in line with the movemen...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

The Pastoral And The Personal In Theodicy

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Theodicies, like some virtue ethics and certain ontological arguments, are easy targets for refutation, but much depends on the way they ar...
Monday, March 18, 2013

So, How's The Sabbatical Going?

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That's a question I've been hearing a lot this year, and understandably so.  Most of my friends and my students have never experien...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

The Virtue of Virtue

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Virtue ethics is problematic.   It certainly is helpful at times, but it is not helpful when it names virtues that others cannot relate to;...
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