Virtue Theory and Ideal Observers |
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Authors: | Jason Kawall |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 615 McCallie Ave., Chattanooga, TN 37403, USA |
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Abstract: | Virtue theorists in ethics often embrace the following characterizationof right action: An action is right iff a virtuous agent would performthat action in like circumstances. Zagzebski offers a parallel virtue-basedaccount of epistemically justified belief. Such proposals are severely flawedbecause virtuous agents in adverse circumstances, or through lack ofknowledge can perform poorly. I propose an alternative virtue-based accountaccording to which an action is right (a belief is justified) for an agentin a given situation iff an unimpaired, fully-informed virtuous observerwould deem the action to be right (the belief to be justified). |
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