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Dal principialismo all’etica delle virtù: riflessioni metabioetiche

Educating in a discouraged epoch

We are going through a time of transition, a change of epoch symbolically started with the attacks of September 11 th 2001, that is perhaps declaring the end of post-modern. While the latter was characterised by nihilism and lack of clear targets, the time that is being outlined seems instead to claim for a new axiology, as the previous moral apathy was no more sustainable. Our society is more worried by the need of protection and control, and invokes for limiting freedom in order to guarante...

Suffering, care, and the good life: some ethical remarksSuffering, remarks

Pain and suffering can be seen as distinct experiences, although they show analogies and mutual influence. On a moral level, we might consider if and why a “painful life” is an overall “bad life”, or if (and why) some personal resources can be found to cope better with it and ultimately preserve the possibility of pursuing some “goods”. In this paper I will first address the two notions of pain and suffering, and then focus on the inner condition of human suffering, with the aim of identifyin...

Practical wisdom versus the virtue of care: A prototype approach to the geography of virtues

The purpose of this article is to address the complex relationships within the geography of virtues. Based on the recent prototypical theories of concepts as idealized cognitive models arising from abstraction, the article argues that the relations between virtues are asymmetrical, with a prototypical virtue characterizing the whole category and specific virtues being character traits or skills derived from the prototypical virtue. It also argues that the most promising candidates for the rol...

Moral virtues inferences: When limited information affects our attribution of virtues

In everyday life, when we have to formulate judgements, we often end up being influenced by information that is not directly related to the matter at hand. This happens both when we encounter the person in the real-life world, but also in the cyber-world, when, for example, we use social networks. In both cases, indeed, based simply on a few images or short stories, we may start to believe fake news or judge someone by generalising limited information to the overall judgement of that person/s...

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