He stands as a vestige of dignity, virtue and character at a time when, according to a recent report by university presidents and educators, big-time football violates almost every value that higher education holds dear.
Deontology Rule based Teleology Utility Justice Rights Moral Rights Legal Rights Eudaemonism (Moral Virtue / Character) Mono-theistic Religion based Spiritual / moral guide (e.g., Confucious, Aristotle).
Modern moral theories, the most representative of which are utilitarianism and Kantian moral theory, do not concern themselves directly with virtue and character.
So Anscombe's provocative claim with which this entry began — that the two major traditions in modern moral theory (Kantianism and utilitarianism) have ignored questions of virtue and character to their detriment — does not seem altogether true.
Interest in virtue and character was also indirectly the result of a more practical turn in political philosophy, inspired by the publication of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice in 1971.
As indicated in the introduction to this entry, a renewed philosophical interest in questions of virtue and character was indirectly the result of the publication in 1971 of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice.
Here is potential consonance with the Vitruvian tradition (and similarly virtue-oriented non-Western traditions)—if we see the "good", morally educated architect's virtue and character as our best guarantee of proper and productive weighting of values under differing circumstances (Spector 2001).
This lack of teaching on virtue and character is now reinforced by our popular culture.
And I say this background story because he was my example of not selling out; he was my example of virtue and character.
To maintain cultural homogeneity, it was common practice among residents of some of these bastions of supposed virtue and character to ward off prospective minority homeowners through hostile coercion.
Using Aristotle's classifications of friends, I will attest that many of my Facebook "friends" were friendships of utility or pleasure at one time, but perhaps social media can assist in allowing those friendships to develop into ones based on virtue and character, which Aristotle insists takes time and trust and love and mutual sharing.
