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Virtue Ethics and the Problem of Moral Disagreement
- Philosophical Topics
- University of Arkansas Press
- Volume 38, Number 2, Fall 2010
- pp. 157-180
- Article
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According to many critics of virtue ethics the dominant virtue ethical paradigm of practical reasoning and right action both encourages a dismissive attitude to moral disagreement and offers a bad model for dealing with it. The charge of dismissiveness raises two issues. First, what is it to take moral disagreement seriously? Second, can virtue ethics respond to the charge?