...partial and tentative definition of a virtue: 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. Later this definition will need amplification and amendment. But as a first approximation to an adequate...

...Aquinas: Theories of Virtue and Conceptions of Courage. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990. and exercise of which tends to enable us to achieve...lack of which effectively prevents us from achieving such goods” (191). By “practice” he means any coherent and complex form of socially established...

...than rules or utility maximisation. Indeed, virtues are “acquired human qualities the possession and exercise of which tends to enable us to achieve those goods which are internal to practices” (Maclntyre, 1981, p. 178), and banking is a specific practice in the Aristotelian sense of the term....

...account of the virtues. According to MacIntyre: CA 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° (191). Although the idea that virtues are qualities or states of an agent acquired through the practice...

...context of specific practices. As he defines it, “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.” Fidelity, for instance, is not viscerally attractive and joyful to engage in apart from a particular...

...draft code (Jones, 19%). 12 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' (1984,191). While there are difficulties with his notion of 'practice,' this distinction between internal...

...context (before introducing further qualifications later), 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" (p. 191, my emphasis). Medical care is a social practice in Maclntyre's sense. Doctors and nurses pursue...

...Alasdair Maclntyre offers the following 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." After Virtue: A Study of Moral Theory (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1981),...

...relates virtues to practices in such a way that a virtue is something the exercise of which will tend to 'enable us to achieve those goods which are internal to practices'. '4 Practices are, of course, always in the process of change and development, and with that change...

...means to obtain the goods sought by a practice: “A virtue is an acquired human quality the possession and exercise of which tends to enable us to achieve...prevents us from achieving any such goods.” Maclntyre gives as examples the virtues of honesty, courage, and justice which, he claims, are necessary to all...