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" Meeting Anscombe's demand: Toward a moral psychology of character "
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565596
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Monahan, Liam Murphy
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Meeting Anscombe's demand: Toward a moral psychology of character [Thesis]
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University of Notre Dame, 2004
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eng
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Ph.D.
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, University of Notre Dame
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Contemporary virtue theorists suggest a conception of moral perception, practical reasoning, and motivation radically different from that of their Enlightenment-inspired rivals. However, without a psychologically credible understanding of how it is possible for rationally limited creatures like human beings to be virtuous, virtue theory cannot be a genuine alternative. Many virtue theorists believe that being virtuous involves the possession of stable character traits that provide an agent with the capacity to consistently recognize objectively appropriate reasons for action as well as the ability to act reliably for, or because of, those reasons. What many virtue theorists fail to realize is that this description of being virtuous makes both normative and psychological assumptions that must be vindicated..
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Philosophy
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TL
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Latin Dissertation
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