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Old 08-13-2010, 03:56 PM
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Re: Rules provide no help in avoiding evil desires

Baron is a Virtue Theorists (sounds like), and rightly so. However, Virtue Theory alone has some weaknesses:

Ultimately, virtue theory must be able to resolve real-life, practical, moral dilemmas. Also, one's actions inform our valuation of their virtue (ie, Jesus). There were things he DID that inform us that he was a virtuous person.

Baron is right in that act-based ethics fall miserably short, but I believe Virtue-only Theory does as well --- though I would lean more heavily on Virtue Theory than the woes and perils of action-based ethics.
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