Virtue ethics, Approach to ethics that takes the notion of virtue (often conceived as excellence) as fundamental.
As articulated in these works, Chinese historical thought was intensely moralistic: virtue was conceived as following the example of one's ancestors.
Scherkoske (2011, 2012a and 2012b) suggest that integrity is an epistemic virtue, broadly conceived.
Still, Hume makes things difficult for natural virtue by conceiving individual and social justice in highly conservative terms.
It is, within virtue ethics, already conceived of as something of which virtue is at least partially constitutive.
Hutton (2006), Sarkissian (2010) and Slingerland (2011) develop responses based on Confucian moral psychology and virtue ethics to challenges mounted by Gilbert Harman (1998-99) and John Doris (2002) to the viability of virtue ethics (as conceived in the Western tradition).
One thing inheres in another in virtue of being conceived through it, which, like causation, is a matter of conceptual involvement.
Virtue epistemology, thus conceived, is a form of reliabilism.[64] According to an extreme version of naturalistic epistemology, the project of traditional epistemology, pursued in an a priori fashion from the philosopher's armchair, is completely misguided.
The virtue of the atlas conceived by Johannes Klencke was, through sheer extravagance, to ennoble something that was actually increasingly universal.
The cardinal virtue of humaneness, when conceived as a sentiment of benevolence or as a conscientious concern, has played a key role in scholarly discussions within environmental philosophy, bioethics, and the ethics of care (particularly in medical ethics).
Other commentators in the virtue epistemology camp, broadly conceived, have put forward similar suggestions.
