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Virtue ethics
BY 1 NOV 2023
What makes something right or wrong?
Ethics Unboxed: Virtue, are you being your best self?
Lesson 9 shifts the focus from questions of what is the right thing to do to what is the right kind of person to be?
ArticleHEALTH + WELLBEING
The virtues of Christmas
BY 20 DEC 2019
Christmas means time with friends and family. It can bring up some tricky ethical questions. We look to virtue ethics for the solutions.
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Is modesty an outdated virtue?
BY 22 MAY 2018
Have you noticed the latest fashion trend to hit the beaches? It a rather cheeky fashion trend… the summer of bare butts.
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Ethics Explainer: Virtue Ethics
BY 16 FEB 2016
Does the moral character of a person count? Virtue ethics, first coined by Aristotle says a good person is someone who lives virtuously.
ArticleHEALTH + WELLBEING
David Pocock’s rugby prowess and social activism is born of virtue
BY 30 OCT 2015
David Pocock’s rugby prowess and commitment to social activism inspires awe. Fortunately, the blonde behemoth has never shied away from a challenge.
ArticleSOCIETY + CULTURE
Big Thinker: Philippa Foot
BY 11 APR 2024
Philippa Foot was one of the founders of contemporary virtue ethics, reviving the dominant Aristotelian ethics in the 20th century.
WorkshopBeing Human
Ethics Tune Up: Ethics 101
ArticlePOLITICS + HUMAN RIGHTS
Why sometimes the right thing to do is nothing at all
BY 8 FEB 2024
A 1990s science-fiction show reminds us that just because we can do something, it doesn’t always mean we should.
ArticleSOCIETY + CULTURE
Stoicism on Tiktok promises happiness – but the ancient philosophers who came up with it had something very different in mind
BY 20 DEC 2023
Can you be happy by simply accepting your fate? TikTok seems to think so.