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Virtue ethicists

Virtue ethics (also aretaic ethics, from Greek ἀρετή [aretḗ]) is an approach to ethics that treats the concept of moral virtue as central. Virtue ethics is usually contrasted with two other major approaches in normative ethics, consequentialism and deontology, which make the goodness of outcomes of an action (consequentialism) and the concept of moral duty (deontology) central.

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David Hume

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of David Hume, the philosopher and leading figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.

6 October 2011

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Featuring: Peter Millican, Helen Beebee, James Harris

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Edmund Burke

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work of the philosopher, politician and writer Edmund Burke, whose views on revolution in America and France were hugely influential.

3 June 2010

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Featuring: Karen O'Brien, Richard Bourke, John Keane

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Elizabeth Anscombe

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential thinker who rejuvenated moral philosophy in the postwar period.

22 June 2023

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Featuring: Rachael Wiseman, Constantine Sandis, Roger Teichmann

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Iris Murdoch

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the growing prominence of the philosophy of one of the most celebrated novelists of the 20th century, who developed her ideas in response to WWII.

21 October 2021

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Featuring: Anil Gomes, Anne Rowe, Miles Leeson

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Philippa Foot

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most notable philosophers of the 20th century, who explored why it mattered to be moral and why humans needed virtues to flourish.

16 May 2024

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Featuring: Anil Gomes, Sophie Grace Chappell, Rachael Wiseman

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St Thomas Aquinas

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss St Thomas Aquinas, the Catholic Church's foremost western philosopher and theologian.

17 September 2009

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Featuring: Martin Palmer, John Haldane, Annabel Brett

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