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Dr. Shane McLoughlin
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Virtues in the Professions
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The Good Teacher
Virtuous Character - Law
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Character Education Research
Teacher Education
The Influence of Parents and the Media
Schools of Virtue
Flourishing From the Margins
Character Education in UK Schools
Knightly Virtues
My Character
Religious Education Teachers
Gratitude Research
An Attitude for Gratitude
Good Neighbours In A Good Neighbourhood?
Give Thanks – Give Back
Gratitude and Related Character Virtues
Torchbearers of Liberty
Thank You Film Awards
Youth Social Action
Character Through Youth Social Action
A Habit of Service
Phronesis
Parent-Teacher Partnerships
Cultivating Cyber-Phronesis
Virtues in Policing
Civic Virtues Through Service to Others
Character Education Pedagogies
NewsWise in Primary Education
Conferences
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Virtues: Local or Universal?
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Professor Kristján Kristjánsson publishes in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy
29th July 2014
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Prof. Kristján Kristjánsson has published an article titled ‘Pity: a mitigated defence’ in the latest issue of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy. The article can be viewed
here
with the abstract provided below:
Abstract: The aim of this article is to offer a mitigated moral justification of a much maligned emotional trait, pity, in the Aristotelian sense of ‘pain at deserved bad fortune’. I lay out Aristotle’s taxonomic map of pity and its surrounding conceptual terrain and argue – by rehearsing modern accounts – that this map is not anachronistic with respect to contemporary conceptions. I then offer an ‘Aristotelian’ (albeit not Aristotle’s) moral justification of pity, not as a full virtue intrinsically related to eudaimonia but as a positive moral quality that has instrumental value in developing and sustaining a certain intrinsically valuable state of character – namely compassion. The justification offered is mitigated in the sense that it does not elevate pity to a virtuous disposition, constitutive of the good life; yet it does offer a crucial counterweight to Aristotle’s own denunciation of pity.
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