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104Virtue as Loving the GoodSocial Philosophy and Policy 9 (2): 149. 1992.In a chapter of The Methods of Ethics entitled “Ultimate Good”, Henry Sidgwick defends hedonism, the theory that pleasure and only pleasure is intrinsically good, that is, good in itself and apart from its consequences. First, however, he argues against the theory that virtue is intrinsically good. Sidgwick considers both a strong version of this theory — that virtue is the only intrinsic good — and a weaker version — that it is one intrinsic good among others. He tries to show that neither vers…Read more
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71Proportionality and necessityIn Larry May & Emily Crookston (eds.), War: Essays in Political Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2008.to appear in Larry May, ed., War and Political Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
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109Aristotle on Virtue: Wrong, Wrong, and WrongIn Julia Peters (ed.), Aristotelian Ethics in Contemporary Perspective, Routledge. pp. 9-26. 2012.In his chapter ‘Aristotle on Virtue: Wrong, Wrong, and Wrong’, Thomas Hurka advances penetrating criticisms of some of the core theses of the Aristotelian approach to virtue. Hurka challenges the Aristotelian tendency to blur the distinction between the good and the right by making the virtues, which are constitutive of a person’s goodness, objects of praise or blame. He puts into question the Aristotelian doctrine of the mean and the idea that vice can always be explained in terms of either exc…Read more
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17Making Sense of Human Rights: Philosophical Reflections on the Universal Declaration of Human RightsPhilosophical Books 30 (1): 54-56. 1987.
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