Our colleague Shannon Vallor, associate professor and chair of Santa Clara University’s Philosophy department (and an MCAE faculty scholar), has an upcoming book due to be published in August by ...

Virtue ethics, rooted in Aristotelian philosophy, emphasises the development of individual character and the cultivation of virtues as central to moral conduct. In the context of business ethics, this ...

Aristotle famously distinguishes between merely doing a virtuous action and acting in the way in which a virtuous person would. Against an interpretation prominent in recent scholarship, I argue that ...

For the Ancient Greeks, virtue was the most important quality a person could have, and being virtuous was the absolute goal ...

The goal of this essay is to set forth the ethical teaching of al-Fārābī and of Ibn Sīna. However, because their writings and their philosophy are not well-known to us, it seems appropriate to move ...

As is often noted, piety is not among the list of moral and intellectual virtues mentioned by Aristotle in the Ethics. I argue that this is neither an oversight on Aristotle’s part nor a subtle way ...

Jane Austen and Dorothy Sayers understood the virtue of chastity as central to personal integrity and the foundation for true charity. Both recognised that love, unregulated by virtue, could lead to ...

Virtue ethics is often taught very poorly. When it is taught as philosophy, it is often crammed in alongside alternative ethical views, and taught by a proponent of one of those views. I think the ...