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Good Intentions and Political Life: Against Virtue Parsimony: St Cross Special Ethics Seminar

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Uehiro Oxford Institute
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Dr Adrian Walsh delivers a St Cross College Lecture entitled Good Intentions and Political Life: Against Virtue Parsimony.
It is a commonplace that the good life and the good society are intimately interconnected. In order to maximize our chances of living well, we require a well-ordered polity; and this is one of the fundamental challenges of politics. Typically we regard a good society as, amongst other things, a society that has well designed institutions. One crucial aspect of the 'design challenge' concerns itself with the relationship between individual virtue and such political institutions. Is it is in general a good idea to prefer those institutions that demand from participating individuals a virtue-rich input? [...]

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Uehiro Oxford Institute
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Adrian Walsh
Keywords
uehiro
politics
st cross college
philosophy
virtue ethics
Department: Uehiro Oxford Institute
Date Added: 24/01/2011
Duration: 01:01:06

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