Virtue Jurisprudence
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Gier on Hindu Virtue Ethics Nick Gier has posted Hindu Virtue Ethics. Here is a taste: Following an aesthetics of virtue, I will propose that the Hindu virtues are personal creations that are, as Aristotle maintains, “relative to us,” and that strictly deontological or utilitarian readings of the ethics of the Hindu epics are not…
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Conference Announcement: Virtue Epistemology Virtue Epistemology Stirling Management Centre University of Stirling 19th-21st November, 2004 *Provisional Programme Now Available on Conference Webpage* Conference Overview This conference aims to bring together some of the leading philosophers in the world to discuss epistemological themes that fall broadly under the title of Virtue Epistemology. For the conference homepage,…
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Do Humans Have Character Traits? A Comment on Situationalism, Moral Psychology, and Legal Theory Introduction Lawrence Blum has a review of John Doris’s book which is titled Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior on Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (The first chapter of Doris’s book is available as a free download here). Doris’s book is…
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Sherry on Judges of Character Suzanna Sherry’s essay Judges of Character, 38 Wake Forest Law Review 793 (2003) has just gone up on westlaw. Sherry is one of several constitutional theorists who have explored the implications of what might be called the aretaic turn in constitutional theory–shifting the focus from decision procedures to judicial character.…
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The Aretaic Turn The ever acute Jack Balkin answers the always intelligent Matthew Yglesias’s argument for mediocrity on the federal bench. Here is a bit of Yglesias’s post: Law professors seem to take it as just obvious that intellectual brilliance is an extremely important qualification for a judge and then debate as to whether or…