Academic pages in English. Thanks.Applied ethics deals with concrete moral issues like abortion and euthanasia. Many of these are also tackled in Society: Issues, and this category is intended, unsurprisingly, for more philosophical debates and writings than you will find under Society: Issues.
This category is for theoretical aspects of virtue in ethics. Appropriate submissions include:Virtue theory is the branch of ethics that founds morality upon disposition: ie. how it is we know choose between courses of action and our motivations in acting upon our decisions. As such it is in oppsition to the main strand of moral theorising which is concerned with goods (ie. the ends of those choices and actions).
- Discussions of the relationships between virtue and utility, and of the role the virtues should play in an account of morality.
- Discussions of the significance of a virtue-centered approach in applied ethics.
- Philosophical histories of ethics which discuss the changing role of virtue in ethics.
Catalogues of the virtues are appropriate to this category only if they include philosophical criticism. Otherwise they might be better housed in one of: