Introducing the theme of the volume, this chapter starts from the question posed in Plato’s Meno: can virtue be taught, and if so, how? It considers changing views on virtue from the ancient world to the Enlightenment and ...

What could it mean to say that one has historical sensibility? This paper investigates this question and how such sensibility was placed among the desirable values for a historian to hold and to exercise in his own ...

Se estudian los conceptos claves de fortuna, virtù y gloria, con el objeto de buscar algunas aclaraciones sobre el problema de la relación entremoral y política en Maquiavelo. La virtù maquiaveliana incluye, sin duda,múltiples ...

Since its creation by Peirce, the nature of abductive inference has been construed in many ways. Three construing are analyzed, and some of their derivatives, to then examine the possibility for considering abduction as ...

Ata da Reunião do Grupo de Pesquisa Virtuhab

Background: Theoretically, the exercise of good medicine requires physicians who possess and practice virtues. There are good reasons to believe that virtue ethics would be highly appreciated by patients. Aim: To determine ...