Whether human nature can (or should) orient action by providing the objective standard by which one measures morality, and by setting the constraints on what counts as virtuous, is a much-debated issue within virtue ethics, thanks to the seminal works of Philippa Foot, Bernard Williams, John McDowell, Julia Annas, Rosalind Hursthouse, and Michael Thompson. This discussion, however, is all but settled, since the advocates of a strict naturalism keep proposing reductive or elim- inative views of moral phenomena, while the defenders of reason as the ultimate source of normativity deny that facts about human nature can pose any relevant con- straint on it. This paper has a twofold aim. On the one hand, we will discuss the much debated question of the source of normativity (which traditionally has nature and practical reason as the two main contenders to this role) and propose a new answer to it. Sec- ond, in answering this question, we will present a new account of practical wisdom, which conceives of the ethical virtues as ultimately unified in the chief virtue of phronesis, understood as ethical expertise.

Phronesis as Ethical Expertise: Naturalism of Second Nature and the Unity of Virtue, in “Journal of Value Inquiry”, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-018-9654-9. (con M. De Caro e M.S. Vaccarezza) / Mario De Caro, Maria Silvia Vaccarezza, Ariele Niccoli. - In: JOURNAL OF VALUE INQUIRY. - ISSN 1573-0492. - ELETTRONICO. - (2018), pp. 287-305.

Phronesis as Ethical Expertise: Naturalism of Second Nature and the Unity of Virtue, in “Journal of Value Inquiry”, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-018-9654-9. (con M. De Caro e M.S. Vaccarezza).

DE CARO, MARIO;VACCAREZZA, MARIA SILVIA;Ariele Niccoli
2018

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Whether human nature can (or should) orient action by providing the objective standard by which one measures morality, and by setting the constraints on what counts as virtuous, is a much-debated issue within virtue ethics, thanks to the seminal works of Philippa Foot, Bernard Williams, John McDowell, Julia Annas, Rosalind Hursthouse, and Michael Thompson. This discussion, however, is all but settled, since the advocates of a strict naturalism keep proposing reductive or elim- inative views of moral phenomena, while the defenders of reason as the ultimate source of normativity deny that facts about human nature can pose any relevant con- straint on it. This paper has a twofold aim. On the one hand, we will discuss the much debated question of the source of normativity (which traditionally has nature and practical reason as the two main contenders to this role) and propose a new answer to it. Sec- ond, in answering this question, we will present a new account of practical wisdom, which conceives of the ethical virtues as ultimately unified in the chief virtue of phronesis, understood as ethical expertise.
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Mario De Caro, Maria Silvia Vaccarezza, Ariele Niccoli
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