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The contemporary revival of virtue ethics is usually traced to such philosophers as Elizabeth Anscombe, Bernard Williams and Alasdair MacIntyre responsible for, respectively, the well-known critique of “modern moral philosophy” (Anscombe 1958), criticism of “the peculiar institution” of morality (Williams 1985/2006) and the “disquieting suggestion” (MacIntyre 1981/2007) that contemporary so-called moral philosophy is not moral philosophy in any proper sense of the term.
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Banicki, K. (2017). Iris Murdoch and the Varieties of Virtue Ethics. In: Carr, D., Arthur, J., Kristjánsson, K. (eds) Varieties of Virtue Ethics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59177-7_6
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