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- Title
MINDING OTHERS' BUSINESS.
- Authors
STOHR, KAREN
- Abstract
What do we do when a loved one is seriously messing up her life? While Kantianism describes the predicament nicely as a tension between love and respect, it is not well-suited to resolving it. Kantian respect prevents minding another's business in cases where love demands it. Virtue ethics can readily explain the predicament as a tension between the virtues of sympathy and humility. Moreover, by changing the focus away from the other as a setter of ends and toward the would-be-benefactor's own degree of practical wisdom, virtue ethics permits a more nuanced set of loving responses to self-destructive people.
- Subjects
SELF-destructive behavior; ENGAGEMENT (Philosophy); VIRTUE; SYMPATHY; HUMILITY; LOVE; RESPECT; WISDOM
- Publication
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2009, Vol 90, Issue 1, p116
- ISSN
0279-0750
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0114.2009.01331.x