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Virtue ARGUMENTATIONANDREW ABERDEINV irtue Ethics is perhaps the fastest growing field in ethical theory. Virtue theo-ries have also been proposed in other disciplines, such as epistemology and jurispru-dence. This paper stakes a claim in another area: in EthicsAfter centuries of obscurity, the study of the virtues is now one of the mostprominent methodologies in Ethics . Proponents of this so-called aretaic turn differsubstantially in the details of their respective proposals, but they tend to see arenewed focus on ethical virtues as a fresh source of insight into problems whichhave deadlocked more familiar approaches, such as Kantianism or , Virtue Ethics has an immediacy to everyday human interests which itscompetitors have often been criticized as lacking.
Although Zagzebski’s list of virtues more closely resembles Aristotle’s list of intellectual (or indeed moral) virtues, several of Sosa’s virtues could also be found on that list.
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