 | Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski - 1996 - 388 pages
...possessor intrinsic to its definition. MacIntyre defines virtue as "an acquired quality the possession and exercise of which tends to enable us to achieve...effectively prevents us from achieving any such goods" (1984, p. 178). Like almost all other virtue theorists, MacIntyre is thinking only of moral virtues... | |
 | Nancey C. Murphy, George Francis Rayner Ellis - 294 pages
...virtues. A virtue can be defined in a preliminary way 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." 3 Thus, reliability, carefulness, and technical ability in medicine or architecture are examples of... | |
 | Paul Rabinow - 1996 - 216 pages
...philosophy, that of the virtues. A virtue, for Maclntyre, is an acquired human quality the possession and exercise of which tends to enable us to achieve...internal to practices and the lack of which effectively presents us from achieving any such goods. The exercise of the virtues is not... a means to the end... | |
 | David W. Augsburger - 1996 - 196 pages
...a partial and tentative definition of virtue. A virtue is an acquired tinman quality the possession and exercise of which tends to enable us to achieve those goods which arc internal to practices and the lack of which effectively prevents us from achieving any such goods... | |
 | Mark G. Kuczewski - 1999 - 196 pages
...ends to which virtues are a constitutive means. "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 1984a, 191). Thus, social roles are at once descriptive of human-nature-as-it-is and also contain the... | |
 | Paul B. Thompson - 1997 - 296 pages
...‘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...prevents us from achieving any such goods,' (Maclntyre, 1984, p. 191, italics in original) By ‘practice' he means: any coherent and complex form of socially... | |
 | John Dobson - 1997 - 208 pages
...definition of virtue is supplied by MacIntyre: "A virtue is an acquired human quality the possession and exercise of which tends to enable us to achieve those goods which are internal." 27 He distinguishes between internal and external goods as follows: It is characteristic of what I... | |
 | Laurence B. McCullough - 2007 - 360 pages
...to be in some debt to Maclntyre's formulation: 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, 1981, p. 178). Both definitions emphasize that we are not born with the character traits that count... | |
 | Murray Jardine - 1998 - 226 pages
...begins by saying that, as a first approximation, “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.”' By a practice, Maclntyre means “any coherent and complex form of socially established cooperative... | |
 | Michel Rosenfeld, Andrew Arato - 1998 - 488 pages
...omitted). i6. Id. ‘7. Id. at 298. 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.”' 8 Habermas is most forceful and persuasive when he comes close to acknowledging that what he “really”... | |
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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 
