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Virtue jurisprudence
Overview
Virtue ethics applied to jurisprudence
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Now the power and resolved purpose to resist a strong but unjust opponent is called fortitude (fortitudo), and when concerned with the opponent of the moral character within us, it is virtue (virtus, fortitudo moralis). Accordingly, general deontology, in that part which brings not external, but internal, freedom under laws is the doctrine of virtue. {INTRODUCTION ^paragraph 10} Jurisprudence had to do only with the…
Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
States what Virtue jurisprudence is.
As justice is the only virtue with regard to which such exact rules can properly be given; it is this virtue, that has chiefly fallen under the consideration of those two different sets of writers. They treat of it, however, in a very different manner.
Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
States what Virtue jurisprudence is.
Verit. 13), it is a rectitude of the will, whereas truth resides in the intellect, as the Philosopher says (Metaph. vi; Ethic. vi, 2,6). Therefore justice does not appertain to truth. Obj. 2: Further, according to the Philosopher (Ethic. iv, 7), truth is a virtue distinct from justice. Truth therefore does not appertain to the idea of justice. _On the contrary,_ it is said (Ps. 84:11): "Mercy and truth have met each…
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
States what Virtue jurisprudence is; the author is tied to Virtue jurisprudence in the knowledge graph.
Related ideas
- Jurisprudence
- Eudaimonia
- Thomas Aquinas
- Rule of law
- Robert P. George
- Virtue ethics
- Analects
- Aristotle
- Confucianism
- Confucius
- Han Feizi
- Ethics
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Part of Virtue ethics.