• You Are Only as Good as You Are Behind Closed Doors : The Stability of Virtuous Dispositions Goldstein, Rena Beatrice 2020 Precollege Philosophy and Public Practice , Vol. 2 , S. 88 ff. ( Zeitschrift ) Englisch 2576-9901 10.5840/p42020348 Abstract

    Virtues are standardly characterized as stable dispositions. A stable disposition implies that the virtuous actor must be disposed to act well in any domain required of them. For example, a politician is not virtuous if s/he is friendly in debate with an opponent, but hostile at home with a partner or children. Some recent virtue theoretic accounts focus on specific domains in which virtues can be exercised. I call these domain-variant accounts of virtue. This paper examines two such accounts: Randall Curren and Charles Dorn’s (2018) discussion of virtue in the civic sphere, and Michael Brady’s (2018) account of virtues of vulnerability. I argue that being consistent with the standard characterization of virtue requires generalizing beyond a domain. I suggest four actions the authors could take to preserve their accounts while remaining consistent with the standard characterization. I also discuss how virtue education could be enhanced by domain-variant accounts.

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Goldstein, Rena Beatrice
Applied Philosophy

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