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1 day ago · Rand referred to egoism as "the virtue of selfishness" in her book of that title. In it, she presented her solution to the is–ought problem by describing a meta-ethical theory that based morality in the needs of "man's survival qua man", which requires the use of a rational mind.
1 day ago · This literature survey will cover three strands of research: (1) studies on the history of virtue ethics, which are mostly concerned with the question of to what extent Aristotle, Hume, Nietzsche, and others can be classified as virtue ethicists avant la lettre; (2) studies on the history of virtue theories, which cast their net a little ...
2 days ago · Conscience is not the same as egoism, as seen in the quote: "I couldn't live with myself if I had done such-and-such!" This is akin to what philosopher Ayn Rand had in mind in her novels The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), and in her essay The Virtue of Selfishness (1964), in which she argued that it is generally ethically ...
4 days ago · individualism, political and social philosophy that emphasizes the moral worth of the individual. Although the concept of an individual may seem straightforward, there are many ways of understanding it, both in theory and in practice.
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5 days ago · Moral virtue, in ethics, those qualities or states of character that find expression in morally good actions and morally good purposes or intentions. Moral virtues are persistent patterns of behaviour and thought rather than transient emotions, aspects of intelligence, or physical characteristics.
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2 days ago · Monday, May 27, 2024. The power of positive peer pressure. An interdisciplinary team of Boston College researchers to explore how social norms can be leveraged to promote virtuous behavior.
5 days ago · Topics within personality psychology include the traits or individual differences underlying moral behavior, such as generativity, self-control, agreeableness, cooperativeness and honesty/humility, [107] [108] [109] as well as moral change goals, [110] among many other topics.
