| E.E. Shelp - 1985 - 394 pages
...virtue, according to Maclntyre's preliminary definition, is "an acquired human quality the possession and exercise of which tends to enable us to achieve...effectively prevents us from achieving any such goods" ([17], p. 178). This definition includes two semitechnical terms, 'practices' and 'internal goods'.... | |
| Paul Nelson - 2010 - 193 pages
...judgment.” 6 Virtues, then, derive from practices: “A virtue is an acquired human quality the possession and exercise of which tends to enable us to achieve...effectively prevents us from achieving any such goods.” As cooperative forms of human activity, practices entail relationships between participants that must... | |
| John H. Kultgen - 1988 - 412 pages
...context he provides this tentative definition: “A virtue is an acquired human quality the possession and exercise of which tends to enable us to achieve...effectively prevents us from achieving any such goods.” The important characters of our culture, according to MacIntyre, include the rich aesthete, the bureaucratic... | |
| John Wilson - 1988 - 152 pages
...right or valuable: but that is irrelevant here.) 'A virtue is an acquired human quality the possession and exercise of which tends to enable us to achieve those goods which are internal to practices' (p. 178). A practice is 'any coherent and complex form of socially established cooperative human activity... | |
| Anne H. Bishop, John R. Scudder, John R. Scudder, Jr. - 1990 - 198 pages
...the practice” (p. 190). Thus, MacIntyre defines virtue as an acquired human quality the possession and exercise of which tends to enable us to achieve...effectively prevents us from achieving any such goods (p. 191) According to Maclntyre, recognizing virtues within practices requires making two necessary... | |
| Benjamin R. Barber - 1988 - 236 pages
...internal to the activity itself. A virtue in this sense is "an acquired human quality, the possession and exercise of which tends to enable us to achieve those goods which are internal to practices" (AV, 178). Despite the utilitarians, virtue therefore cannot be defined by external goods. Here Maclntyre... | |
| Werner Maihofer, Gerhard Sprenger - 1990 - 278 pages
...practice-related virtues in the following way: "A virtue is an acquired human quality, the possession and exercise of which tends to enable us to achieve those goods which are internal to practice and the lack of which effectively prevents us from achieving any such goods." 6 MacIntyre... | |
| Werner Maihofer, Gerhard Sprenger - 1990 - 278 pages
...practice-related virtues in the following way: "A virtue is an acquired human quality, the possession and exercise of which tends to enable us to achieve those goods which are internal to practice and the lack of which effectively prevents us from achieving any such goods."* MacIntyre also... | |
| John H. Riker - 1991 - 256 pages
...contemporary virtue theorists. Maclntyre defines a virtue as “an acquired human quality the possession and exercise of which tends to enable us to achieve...effectively prevents us from achieving any such goods.” (After Virtue, 178). Since achieving goods in practices is essentially what constitutes living well... | |
| P. Christopher Smith - 1991 - 322 pages
...theory on the basis of virtue as such, which he defines as “an acquired human quality the possession and exercise of which tends to enable us to achieve...effectively prevents us from achieving any such goods” (AV 191). But is such a formal “definition” essentially different from the formal “definition”... | |
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