Journal of Philosophical Investigations
Flourishing and Essential Capacities
Flourishing and Essential Capacities

Robin Attfield

دوره 17، شماره 45 ، دی 1402، ، صفحه 347-360

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.17517

چکیده
  I have previously argued that human flourishing partly consists in the ability to exercise essential human capacities, many of which are non-distinctive and shared with other animals. The concept of flourishing is itself species-specific. Thus, the development of essential capacities (human and nonhuman) comprises a large part of the goods that we ought to promote. ...  بیشتر
Virtues and Value: How Virtue Theory Plugs a Gap in Practice-Consequentialism
Virtues and Value: How Virtue Theory Plugs a Gap in Practice-Consequentialism

Robin Attfield

دوره 16، شماره 41 ، دی 1401، ، صفحه 471-478

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.15860

چکیده
  What confers their value on genuine virtues, it is argued, consists in the intrinsic value that instantiating them in thought and action standardly brings about. This granted, virtue theory is argued to be capable of plugging a gap in consequentialist theories of the kind that make actions right which either exemplify optimific practices or are directly optimific. ...  بیشتر
The Virus and the Environment: The Problem of Sustaining Unexpected Gains
The Virus and the Environment: The Problem of Sustaining Unexpected Gains

Robin Attfield

دوره 14، شماره 32 ، آذر 1399، ، صفحه 48-54

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2020.11555

چکیده
  The coronavirus pandemic has had some unexpected benign effects (including a large drop in air pollution and levels of nitrogen oxides in UK and elsewhere, and a smaller drop in global carbon emissions), which raises the problem of how to sustain and build on these unexpected gains. These gains could easily be lost when economies and road transport return to ...  بیشتر