The Instrumentality of the Virtues Are Virtues Merely Means to Ends?
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Jan 24, 2023
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virtues, instrumentality, cross-cultural comparison, duties, Confucianism
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The Virtues by Craig A. Boyd and Kevin Timpe is supposed to be a work about the virtues themselves. Virtue is not limited by language or by race, so one would expect the book to be properly multicultural. However, the entire book is Graeco-Abrahamic, except for a single chapter on Confucianism, which is sometimes erroneous and ultimately below standard. The book is also permeated by an utterly unjustified notion of the instrumentality of virtuosity, which the authors treat as though it were traditional.
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Neminemus, I. (2023). The Instrumentality of the Virtues: Are Virtues Merely Means to Ends?. Journal of World Philosophies, 7(2). Retrieved from https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/jwp/article/view/5889
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