Allen W. Wood Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's Groundwork); second, a set of duties, not deduced from but derived from this principle, by way of its interpretation or specification, its application to the general conditions of human life - which Kant does in the Doctrine of virtue, the second main part of the Metaphysics of Morals; and then finally an act of judgment, through which these duties are applied to particular cases.

  Allen W. Wood

  Principles, Doe, Doctrine

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• Kant's system of duties constitutes a Doctrine of Virtue because the duties also indicate what kinds of attitudes, dispositions and feelings are morally virtuous or vicious.

  Allen W. Wood

  Attitude, Feelings, Doctrine

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• Kant's description of most ethical duties reads more like a description of moral virtues and vices. Once we see this, we see that Kantian ethics is indeed a kind of virtue ethics, and that it does not "divide the heart from the head" (to anticipate one of your later questions) but instead recognizes the deep truth that reason and emotion are not opposites.

  Allen W. Wood

  Heart, Reason And Emotion, Opposites

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• Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues.

  Allen W. Wood

  Feelings, Moral, Virtue

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• Virtues consist not only of acting in certain ways, but in ways of caring and feeling.

  Allen W. Wood

  Caring, Feelings, Acting

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