What’s good about the good life? Action theory, virtue ethics and modern morality

Philosophy and Social Criticism 47 (7):814-830 (2020)
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The article explores the scope and the limits of virtue ethics from the perspective of critical theory and critical realism. Based on new research in moral sociology and anthro...

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