Though first proposed more than two decades ago, virtue jurisprudence—broadly, the attempt to apply the insights and perspectives of virtue ethics to law and legal theory—has failed to gain much ...traction in the legal academy. This is partly due, we suggest, to the dominance of traditionalist neo‐Aristotelian approaches to virtue jurisprudence—most notably in the work of Lawrence Solum, the most prominent theoretical architect and defender of virtue jurisprudence. In this paper, we sketch in broad strokes an alternative form of virtue jurisprudence—a pluralistic virtue‐centered approach—and explain how it might work, particularly in the field of constitutional adjudication. Such an approach, we argue, has major advantages over prevailing neo‐Aristotelian models, and may well have wider appeal.
This paper (1) explores the reasons why philosophy was accorded a special role in Catholic higher education in the United States in the decades prior to Vatican II; (2) explains why many of those ...reasons are now widely seen as attenuated or obsolete; (3) briefly discusses recent changes to the environment of Catholic higher education that have led many to question whether philosophy should still be seen as a high-priority discipline; and (4) makes a case that it should. The author argues that, for all the tectonic shifts that have occurred in higher education in recent decades, philosophy continues to make a special and indeed indispensable contribution to a number of mission-related goals of Catholic universities.
It has now been more than 50 years since H. L. A Hart and Lord Patrick Devlin first squared off in perhaps the most celebrated jurisprudential debate of the twentieth‐century (1959–1967). The central ...issue in that dispute—whether the state may criminalize immoral behavior as such—continues to be debated today, but in a vastly changed legal landscape. In this article I take a fresh look at the Hart‐Devlin debate in the light of five decades of social and legal changes.
...with very few exceptions, Lewis consistently refused invitations to speak or write again in that vein, pleading that he had largely lost his "dialectical power" (Letters 3:129). ...Lewis became an ...icon to contemporary American evangelicals because they have come to see him as a "catalyst, who opens up a deeper vision of the Christian faith, engaging the mind, the feelings, and the imagination, without challenging fundamental distinctives" (375). ...Wamie Lewis, Robert ("the Useless Quack") Havard, Charles Williams, and several other Inklings greatly enjoyed and praised Tolkien's Lord of the Rings) (W. Lewis 196-97; Como 217; Tolkien 105-06). ...the book's convincingly demonstrated re-dating of Lewis's conversion to theism will ensure it an enduring place in Lewis scholarship. -
Each year the evangelical presses disgorge a flood of books that celebrate Lewis the Bonny Apologist, the twentieth century's greatest defender of the faith; Lewis the Narnian, masterly writer of ...children's fantasy; and Lewis the Spiritual Director, author of inspiring devotional works. Yet reasoning exists only when the mind moves from A to B solely because it sees that A implies B, and for no other reason. ...naturalism cannot explain the existence of reasoning, and in fact cannot be rationally defended since it implies that there are no good reasons for any view, including naturalism itself. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the Sun, and the Moon.
Work-family conflict has been examined quite often in human resources management and industrial/organizational psychology literature. Numerous statistics show that the magnitude of this employment ...issue will continue to grow. As employees attempt to balance work demands and family responsibilities, organizations will have to decide to what extent they will go to minimize this conflict. Research has identified numerous negative consequences of work-family stressors for organizations, for employees and for employees' families. There are however many options to reduce this strain, each with advantages and disadvantages. An ethical analysis, from a virtue ethics perspective, is applied to this timely issue to present an alternative view in addressing this critical business decision. In addition, a strong connection between the virtue ethics analysis and a well-known management theory is given to provide a foundation for managerial implications for resolving work-family conflict.
