Becoming Virtuous with Nancy Snow
The Moral Science Podcast
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The Situation Is to Challenge
Aristotelian virtues are conceptualized as entrenched dispositions to perceive, think, feel, and act in particular ways. John Doris made the case that we could have something like answer key honesty or finding loss change and returning it honesty. And so I knew there had to be defenders of global traits, that is traits that are cross-situationly consistent across situations. But that literature wasn't referenced by the situationists. When I did my own reading, I found resources in empirical psychology that support the notion that Aristotelian virtue can and do exist and can be empirically verified.
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