 | Mike W. Martin - 1994 - 252 pages
...this feature part of the definition of virtues: "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." 37 Standards of excellence differ greatly among practices, which is not surprising since they partly... | |
 | Mano Daniel, Lester Embree - 2007 - 345 pages
...Maclntyre, the "goods internal" to a practice are "virtues"—acquired human qualities the possession and exercise of which "tends to enable us to achieve...effectively prevents us from achieving any such goods" ([19], p. 178). It seems to me that this is equivalent to Husserl's emphasis on "immersing oneself... | |
 | Arne Johan Vetlesen - 2012 - 410 pages
...Wholly in line with this view, 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” (AV, 191). A practice, moreover, may flourish or it may disintegrate, its sustenance and integrity... | |
 | William J. Morgan - 1994 - 292 pages
...goods internal to practices. As he defines it, "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 and lack of which effectively prevents us from achieving any such goods." 11 What MacIntyre is claiming... | |
 | Rebecca S. Chopp - 1995 - 156 pages
...of moral agency. Virtues are, to quote Alasdair MacIntyre, "an acquired human quality the possession and exercise of which tends to enable us to achieve...effectively prevents us from achieving any such goods." 52 Virtues are the forms and qualities of human agency that allow us to address ethical topics, to... | |
 | Max L. Stackhouse, Dennis P. McCann, Preston N. Williams, Shirley J. Roels - 1995 - 1002 pages
...223-45. between virtue and social 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” (178). Thus virtues are cultivated in the context of social practices: they are the habits that help... | |
 | Jean Rudduck - 1995 - 136 pages
...accounts of a social practice that Maclntyre defines a virtue as: an acquired human quality the possession and exercise of which tends to enable us to achieve those goods which are internal to practices and lack of which effectively prevents us from achieving any such goods. In addition to virtues specific... | |
 | Susan J. Hekman - 1995 - 212 pages
...proper role (1984: 122). More specifically, “A virtue is an acquired human quality the possession and exercise of which tends to enable us to achieve those goods that are internal to practices and the lack of which effectively prevents us from achieving any such... | |
 | Maurice Glasman - 1996 - 200 pages
...extensively by Alasdair Maclntyre who defines virtue as: ‘an acquired human quality the possession and exercise of which tends to enable us to achieve...prevents us from achieving any such goods'. Maclntyre, After Virtue, p. 191. 88. Hirst, ‘Flexible Specialisation', p. 7. tional competitive success in modern... | |
 | William P. Brown - 1996 - 196 pages
...Maclntyre's definition of virtue in After Virtue, 178: 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. 38. So Pincoffs (77). Pincoffs goes on to define virtues and vices in purely functional terms as “dispositional... | |
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and exercise of which tends to enable us to achieve those goods which are internal to practices and the lack of which effectively prevents us from achieving any such goods 
