Virtues - EIP2

Virtues

24	"Servility and Self-Respect" Thomas E. Hill, Jr.	click on an author's name to go to her/his web page (if available)
25	"On Improving People by Political Means" Lester H. Hunt
26	"Generosity" James D. Wallace
27	"Humility" Judith Andre

Web Resources

Individual virtues

Bok, Sissela. "Honesty in Public Life." Radio Interview. Bok's book Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life (updated edition, 1999) is arguably the most sustained treatment of honesty and lying. [RealAudio]
Green, Mitchell. "Truthtelling." From E. Freeman and P. Werhane (eds). The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Business Ethics.
Hibbits, Maria. "The Ethics of Esteem." Journal of Buddhist Ethics (2000).
Konkoly, Damian G. "Is Temperance Ever Properly Painful?" Paideai Project Online.
LaFollette, Hugh and George Graham. "Honesty and Intimacy." From Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.
Weed, Ronald. "Rousseau and Kant on Envy." Paideai Project Online.

Virtues (in general)

Baltzly, Kirk. "Stoicism." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Character Counts. A popular organization encouraging the teaching of certain basic virtues.
de Sousa, Ronald. "Moral Emotions." Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (2000). Why do we evaluate some emotions as good and others as bad?
Feiser, James. "Hume's Motivational Distinction between Natural and Artificial Virtues," British Journal of the History of Philosophy (1997).
Feiser, James. "Hume's Wide View of the Virtues." Hume Studies (1998).
Kahane, David. "Diversity, Solidarity, and Civic Friendship." Journal of Political Philosophy (1998).
Harman, Gilbert. "Virtue Ethics without Character Traits." A discussion of Judith Jarvis Thompson's views of the virtues.
Harman, Gilbert. Review of Rosalind Hursthouse's On Virtue Ethics. [pdf]
Harman, Gilbert. "Moral Philosophy Meets Social Psychology: Virtue Ethics and the Fundamental Attribution Error." In Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (1998-99).
Harman, Gilbert. "The Nonexistence of Character Traits," In Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (1999-2000).
Hunt, Lester. "Why Democracy is the Enemy of Virtue." From International Studies in Philosophy.
Ridley, Matt. "The Origins of Virtue." Radio interview about the themes in his 1996 book by that title. Explores the biological foundations of the virtues. [RealAudio]

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