naa a22 4500 510789250 CHVBK 20180411083313.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11406-013-9423-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11406-013-9423-8 Bryan Ben Department of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA aut A Feminist Defense of the Unity of the Virtues [Elektronische Daten] [Ben Bryan] In The Impossibility of Perfection, Michael Slote tries to show that the traditional Aristotelian doctrine of the unity of the virtues is mistaken. His argumentative strategy is to provide counterexamples to this doctrine, by showing that there are what he calls "partial virtues”—pairs of virtues that conflict with one another but both of which are ethically indispensible. Slote offers two lines of argument for the existence of partial virtues. The first is an argument for the partiality of a particular pair of virtues: frankness and tact. The second is a kind of feminist critique. I argue that both of these lines of argument fail. In both cases, Slote fails to ask whether the apparent conflict between putatively partial virtues has arisen from a misunderstanding of the demands of those virtues. From this error I suggest we can learn an important lesson: whether in our studies thinking about the virtues or in our everyday lives trying to practice them, it is a serious mistake to focus on the relationships among virtues without considering precisely what each of these virtues demands. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Feminism nationallicence Michael slote nationallicence Unity of the virtues nationallicence Virtue ethics nationallicence Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/3(2013-09-01), 693-702 0048-3893 41:3<693 2013 41 11406 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-013-9423-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-013-9423-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Bryan Ben Department of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/3(2013-09-01), 693-702 0048-3893 41:3<693 2013 41 11406 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer