Contemporary Studies on Virtue Ethics: Law, Lawfulness, and Virtue
A special issue of Philosophies (ISSN 2409-9287). This special issue belongs to the section "Virtues".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 November 2021) | Viewed by 8186
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Papers are solicited for a special issue on virtue ethics, with emphasis on studies that relate virtue and law (or lawfulness). Although papers on any topic in virtue ethics are welcome, priority will be given to those that deal with law. Papers are welcome both in the history of philosophy (any period) and in contemporary moral and social philosophy. Integrative and interdisciplinary studies, which attempt to link, compare, or apply views from disciplines other than philosophy, to philosophical questions, are especially welcome: for example, behavioral economics; psychology; sociology; neuroscience; education; family studies; management theory; and of course jurisprudence. Potential topics relating virtue to law include but are not limited to: Is virtue in members of an association properly conceived of as in the service of the law and its purposes, or is the law of that association for the sake of the virtue of its members? What role does virtue play in the intelligent application of law (cf. phronesis, epieikeia)? To what extent does a virtue imply or include commitment to lawlike precepts? Is the difference between ‘ethics’ and ‘compliance’ in regulatory contexts (including moderation of market activity) a difference somehow in the presence, activity, or acknowledgement of virtue? Is virtue more closely related to informal bonds of friendship and trust than legal bonds involving obligation and penalty? Are there virtues of groups, and, if so, how are these characterized by law? Is lawfulness itself a virtue, or is it perhaps even the whole of virtue under a certain respect (cf. Aristotle)? Is the doctrine of natural law connected to the doctrine of the naturalness of virtue? Are structural or systemic injustices more a matter of vice or bad law? How is law conceived in a culture in which sentiment rather than virtue is regarded as crucial to “morals” and character? How are evils in a society (e.g. greed, bigotry), differently addressed in a society in which those evils are regarded as vices, contrary to virtues? What makes it seem as if virtues are not important for a society of “free and equal persons”?—And so on.
Prof. Michael Pakaluk
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- virtue ethics
- classical ethics
- law and morality
- lawfulness
- social justice
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