... between the advocates of virtueethicsand utilitarian and Kantian approaches, and that it reveals the richness and strength of a more developed and rigorous account of virtueethics This page intentionally ... Function andVirtue , pp – See Michael Slote, From Morality to Virtue, New York, Oxford University Press, ; and Michael Slote, Goods and Virtues, Oxford, Clarendon Press, Virtueethics ... plurality of the virtues distinguishes virtueethics 28 29 On the evaluative pluralism of virtue ethics, see Aristotle’s criticisms of Plato, in Nicomachean Ethics I ; Wallace, Virtues and Vices,...
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