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8The good, the bad, and the luckyThe Philosophers' Magazine 55 77-81. 2011.Even before we come to consider the influence of luck in terms of the results of our actions or the types of situations we come across, luck plays a decisive role in who we fundamentally are.
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195Review: Love, Friendship and the Self: Intimacy, Identification and the Social Nature – Bennett W. Helm (review)Philosophical Quarterly 61 (244): 662-664. 2011.Review of Love Friendship and the Self - Helm B.W.
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2150A Response to Harman: Virtue Ethics and Character Traits: DiscusionsProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 100 (2): 215-221. 2000.
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187Review of Michael Slote, Morals From Motives (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (3). 2002.
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426Commentary: Who Should Take on the Responsibility of Decisionmaking?Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 19 (3): 413-415. 2010.Should a 9-year-old, severely mentally disabled child undergo extensive operations to limit her growth, prevent development of sexual characteristics, and alter appearance, all in the interests of protecting her from other alleged harms and allowing her to be cared for by her family? I think we should resist engaging with this question, and I think the ethics committee was wrong to accept the burden of making the decision regardless of the outcome they arrived at
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672Akrasia and the emotionsIn Nafsika Athanassoulis & Samantha Vice (eds.), The moral life: essays in honour of John Cottingham, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 87. 2008.
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126The handbook of virtue ethics (edited book)Acumen Publishing. 2014.Virtue ethics has emerged as a distinct field within moral theory - whether as an alternative account of right action or as a conception of normativity which departs entirely from the obligatoriness of morality - and has proved itself invaluable to many aspects of contemporary applied ethics. Virtue ethics now flourishes in philosophy, sociology and theology and its applications extend to law, politics and bioethics. 'The handbook of virtue ethics' brings together leading international scholars …Read more
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5029The role of consent in sado-masochistic practicesRes Publica 8 (2): 141-155. 2002.In 1993 the Law Lords upheld the original conviction of five men under the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act for participating in sado-masochistic practices. Although the five men were fully consenting adults, the Law Lords held that consent did not constitute a defence to acts of violence within a sado-masochistic context. This paper examines the judgements in this case and argues that sado-masochistic practices are no different from the known exceptions cited by the court to the idea that c…Read more
Nafsika Athanassoulis
Athens College
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