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Rosalind Hursthouse, the Glossary

Rosalind Hursthouse (born 10 November 1943) is a British-born New Zealand moral philosopher noted for her work on virtue ethics.^[1]

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New Zealand philosophers
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Virtue ethicists

Abortion

Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus.

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Action (philosophy)

In philosophy, an action is an event that an agent performs for a purpose, that is, guided by the person's intention.

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Action theory (philosophy)

Action theory or theory of action is an area in philosophy concerned with theories about the processes causing willful human bodily movements of a more or less complex kind.

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Analytic philosophy

Analytic philosophy is a broad, contemporary movement or tradition within Western philosophy and especially anglophone philosophy, focused on analysis.

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Ancient philosophy

This page lists some links to ancient philosophy, namely philosophical thought extending as far as early post-classical history.

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Animal

Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Applied ethics

Applied ethics is the practical aspect of moral considerations.

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Aristotelianism is a philosophical tradition inspired by the work of Aristotle, usually characterized by deductive logic and an analytic inductive method in the study of natural philosophy and metaphysics.

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Aristotle

Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. Rosalind Hursthouse and Aristotle are Aristotelian philosophers and virtue ethicists.

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Bachelor of Philosophy

Bachelor of Philosophy (BPhil, BPh, or PhB; Baccalaureus Philosophiae or Philosophiae Baccalaureus) is the title of a postgraduate academic degree in philosophy that usually involves considerable research, either through a thesis or supervised research projects.

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Bioethics

Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, medicine, and technologies.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region.

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Charles Flinders Hursthouse

Charles Flinders Hursthouse (7 January 1817 – 22 November 1876) was an English-born settler in New Zealand in the early 1840s. Rosalind Hursthouse and Charles Flinders Hursthouse are Atkinson–Hursthouse–Richmond family.

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Charles Wilson Hursthouse

Charles Wilson Hursthouse (26 June 1841 – 25 February 1911), also known by his Māori name Wirihana, was an English-born New Zealand surveyor, public servant, politician, and soldier. Rosalind Hursthouse and Charles Wilson Hursthouse are Atkinson–Hursthouse–Richmond family.

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A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with a shared socially significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity.

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Contemporary philosophy

Contemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the early 20th century with the increasing professionalization of the discipline and the rise of analytic and continental philosophy.

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Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Corpus Christi College (formally, Corpus Christi College in the University of Oxford; informally abbreviated as Corpus or CCC) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or DPhil; philosophiae doctor or) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research.

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Donald Davidson (philosopher)

Donald Herbert Davidson (March 6, 1917 – August 30, 2003) was an American philosopher. Rosalind Hursthouse and Donald Davidson (philosopher) are analytic philosophers.

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Duty

A duty (from "due" meaning "that which is owing"; deu, did, past participle of devoir; debere, debitum, whence "debt") is a commitment or expectation to perform some action in general or if certain circumstances arise.

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Emeritus

Emeritus (female version: emerita) is an honorary title granted to someone who retires from a position of distinction, most commonly an academic faculty position, but is allowed to continue using the previous title, as in "professor emeritus".

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Emotion

Emotions are physical and mental states brought on by neurophysiological changes, variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure.

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Ethical dilemma

In philosophy, an ethical dilemma, also called an ethical paradox or moral dilemma, is a situation in which two or more conflicting moral imperatives, none of which overrides the other, confront an agent.

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Ethical naturalism

Ethical naturalism (also called moral naturalism or naturalistic cognitivistic definism) is the meta-ethical view which claims that.

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Ethics

Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena.

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Eudaimonia

Eudaimonia (εὐδαιμονία), sometimes anglicized as eudaemonia or eudemonia, is a Greek word literally translating to the state or condition of 'good spirit', and which is commonly translated as 'happiness' or 'welfare'.

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Explanation

An explanation is a set of statements usually constructed to describe a set of facts that clarifies the causes, context, and consequences of those facts.

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G. E. M. Anscombe

Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe (18 March 1919 – 5 January 2001), usually cited as G. E. M. Rosalind Hursthouse and G. E. M. Anscombe are analytic philosophers and virtue ethicists.

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Hard and soft science

Hard science and soft science are colloquial terms used to compare scientific fields on the basis of perceived methodological rigor, exactitude, and objectivity.

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History of philosophy

The history of philosophy is the systematic study of the development of philosophical thought.

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Holland

Holland is a geographical regionG.

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Human

Humans (Homo sapiens, meaning "thinking man") or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus Homo.

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Human behavior

Human behavior is the potential and expressed capacity (mentally, physically, and socially) of human individuals or groups to respond to internal and external stimuli throughout their life.

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Human nature

Human nature comprises the fundamental dispositions and characteristics—including ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—that humans are said to have naturally.

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Language

Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary.

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Law

Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. Rosalind Hursthouse and Ludwig Wittgenstein are analytic philosophers.

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Modern Moral Philosophy

"Modern Moral Philosophy" is an article on moral philosophy by G. E. M. Anscombe, originally published in the journal Philosophy, vol.

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Moral emotions

Moral emotions are a variety of social emotions that are involved in forming and communicating moral judgments and decisions, and in motivating behavioral responses to one's own and others' moral behavior.

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Moral patienthood

Moral patienthood (also called moral patience, moral patiency, and moral status) is the state of being eligible for moral consideration by a moral agent.

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Moral psychology

Moral psychology is a field of study in both philosophy and psychology.

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Morality

Morality is the categorization of intentions, decisions and actions into those that are proper (right) and those that are improper (wrong).

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Normative ethics

Normative ethics is the study of ethical behaviour and is the branch of philosophical ethics that investigates questions regarding how one ought to act, in a moral sense.

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Open University

The Open University (OU) is a public research university and the largest university in the United Kingdom by number of students.

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Philippa Ruth Foot (née Bosanquet; 3 October 1920 – 3 October 2010) was an English philosopher and one of the founders of contemporary virtue ethics. Rosalind Hursthouse and Philippa Foot are analytic philosophers, Aristotelian philosophers and virtue ethicists.

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Philosophy

Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.

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Phronesis

(phrónēsis) is a type of wisdom or intelligence concerned with practical action.

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Plato

Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (Ἀριστοκλῆς; – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms.

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Political philosophy

Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them.

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Public

In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings.

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Reason

Reason is the capacity of applying logic consciously by drawing conclusions from new or existing information, with the aim of seeking the truth.

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Richmond Hursthouse

Richmond Hursthouse (5 May 1845 – 11 November 1902) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in Nelson, New Zealand, and a cabinet minister. Rosalind Hursthouse and Richmond Hursthouse are Atkinson–Hursthouse–Richmond family.

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Rights

Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory.

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Roger Crisp

Roger Stephen Crisp (born 23 March 1961) is fellow and tutor in philosophy at St. Anne's College, Oxford. Rosalind Hursthouse and Roger Crisp are analytic philosophers.

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Royal Society Te Apārangi

The Royal Society Te Apārangi (in full, Royal Society of New Zealand) is a not-for-profit body in New Zealand providing funding and policy advice in the fields of sciences and the humanities.

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Simon Blackburn

Simon Walter Blackburn (born 12 July 1944) is an English academic philosopher known for his work in metaethics, where he defends quasi-realism, and in the philosophy of language. Rosalind Hursthouse and Simon Blackburn are analytic philosophers.

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Somerville College, Oxford

Somerville College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges.

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Spiritual successor

A spiritual successor (sometimes called a spiritual sequel) is a product or fictional work that is similar to, or directly inspired by, another previous work, but (unlike a traditional prequel or sequel) does not explicitly continue the product line or media franchise of its predecessor, and is thus only a successor "in spirit".

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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The New Zealand Herald

The New Zealand Herald is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment, and considered a newspaper of record for New Zealand.

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Trait theory

In psychology, trait theory (also called dispositional theory) is an approach to the study of human personality.

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University of Auckland

The University of Auckland (UoA; Māori: Waipapa Taumata Rau) is a public research university based in Auckland, New Zealand.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.

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Victoria University of Wellington

Victoria University of Wellington (Te Herenga Waka) is a public research university in Wellington, New Zealand.

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Virtue

A virtue (virtus) is a trait of excellence, including traits that may be moral, social, or intellectual.

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Virtue ethics

Virtue ethics (also aretaic ethics, from Greek ἀρετή) is an approach that treats virtue and character as the primary subjects of ethics, in contrast to other ethical systems that put consequences of voluntary acts, principles or rules of conduct, or obedience to divine authority in the primary role.

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Wellington

Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand.

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Western philosophy

Western philosophy, the part of philosophical thought and work of the Western world.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Hursthouse

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See also

Atkinson–Hursthouse–Richmond family

New Zealand philosophers

New Zealand women philosophers

Virtue ethicists

References