caa a22 4500 606237658 CHVBK 20210128101254.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10677-014-9516-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10677-014-9516-x Peters Julia Philosophisches Seminar, University of Tuebingen, Bursagasse 1, 72070, Tuebingen, Germany aut On Automaticity as a Constituent of Virtue [Elektronische Daten] [Julia Peters] A large part of the current debate among virtue ethicists focuses on the role played by phronesis, or wise practical reasoning, in virtuous action. The paradigmatic case of an action expressing phronesis is one where an agent explicitly reflects and deliberates on all practical options in a given situation and eventually makes a wise choice. Habitual actions, by contrast, are typically performed automatically, that is, in the absence of preceding deliberation. Thus they would seem to fall outside of the primary focus of the current virtue ethical debate. By contrast, Bill Pollard has recently suggested that all properly virtuous actions must be performed habitually and therefore automatically, i.e. in the absence of (a certain kind of) moral deliberation. In this paper, Pollard's suggestion is interpreted as the thesis that habitual automaticity is constitutive of virtue or moral excellence. By constructing an argument in favor of it and discussing several objections, the paper ultimately seeks to defend a qualified version of this thesis. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Virtue nationallicence Habit nationallicence Automaticity nationallicence Moral deliberation nationallicence Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/1(2015-02-01), 165-175 1386-2820 18:1<165 2015 18 10677 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-014-9516-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-014-9516-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Peters Julia Philosophisches Seminar, University of Tuebingen, Bursagasse 1, 72070, Tuebingen, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/1(2015-02-01), 165-175 1386-2820 18:1<165 2015 18 10677