Ethical attentiveness

Studies in Philosophy and Education - Tập 12 - Trang 139-151 - 1993
Paul O'Leary1
1Faculty of Education, The University of Western Ontario, Canada

Tóm tắt

Kantian virtue can be construed as a condition of an agent which secures adherence to the requirements of morality in the face of the ever-present possibility of inner conflict with counter-ethical considerations. This paper claims that this conception of virtue does not fit in well with one essential characteristic of the virtuous agent; that he or she is attentive to the well-being of others. After some preliminary remarks about virtue-related evaluations, the paper criticises the Kantian conception of virtue in the light of certain characteristics of ethical attentiveness. The paper concludes by developing a notion of ethical habituation which includes the training of attention.

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