The three-dimensional structure of contemporary virtue ethics
An analysis based on Alasdair MacIntyre
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-6746.2024.1.45457Keywords:
Human Animality, Virtues of Independence, Virtues of Acknowledged Dependence, Virtues of Shared ResponsibilityAbstract
Alasdair MacIntyre elaborates his proposal for ethics of virtues anchored in recognition of the animal identity of the human being, together with the vulnerability and dependence to which we are subjected as biologically constituted animals, but without relating it to the environmental issues arising from our animal condition. Thus, we intend to expand MacIntyre’s virtue ethics through the interweaving of his concepts of human animality, flourishing and virtues, which expose a type of relationship between the human being and nature that requires an entirely new and different set of virtues than those until then thematized by him: the virtues of shared responsibility.
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