{"id":4330,"date":"2020-10-08T15:32:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T13:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dsu.univr.it\/re-serves\/?page_id=4330"},"modified":"2020-10-08T16:53:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T14:53:16","slug":"virtue","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.dsu.univr.it\/re-serves\/en\/glossary\/virtue\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='clear'><\/div><div id='sub_menu1'  class='av-submenu-container main_color  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-first  av-sticky-submenu  container_wrap fullsize' style='  z-index:301' ><div class='container av-menu-mobile-disabled '><ul id='av-custom-submenu-1' class='av-subnav-menu av-submenu-pos-right'>\n<li class='menu-item menu-item-top-level  menu-item-top-level-1'><a href='https:\/\/sites.dsu.univr.it\/re-serves\/en\/glossary\/' ><span class='avia-bullet'><\/span><span class='avia-menu-text'>GLOSSARY<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div><\/div><div class='sticky_placeholder'><\/div><div id='after_submenu'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap fullsize' style=' '  ><div class='container' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-4330'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  no_margin flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_submenu  el_before_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-first  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_three_fifth  no_margin flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  glossa-dettaglio \" style='background: #ffffff; padding:30px; background-color:#ffffff; border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  av_inherit_color '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>Virtue<br \/>\n<\/strong>Roberta Silva e Marco Ubbiali<br \/>\nUniversity of Verona<\/p>\n<p>The concept of virtue originates in classical ethics and runs through the history of Western thought in its flourishing Renaissance periods to reach the contemporary era. The international overview of this theme is particularly broad and engages very different thinkers. These include three figures representing specific reference points: Martha Nussbaum, Alasdair MacIntyre and Paul Ricoeur. According to Martha Nussbaum, the contemporary world is drowning in formalistic approaches that pursue universal theories and drive ethical considerations from everyday life. To overcome this impasse, Nussbaum (1988) reinterprets Aristotle\u2019s concept of virtue by combining it with a care-oriented ethical approach. In fact, her vision is based on an ethics of care, as opposed to the ethics of justice; an ethics in which virtues are considered daily practices that give shape to the human being\u2019s search for a complete and \u201cgood\u201d life. Setting off from the same matrix albeit with important distinctions, MacIntyre (1981) argues that virtues are dispositions uniting \u2018action\u2019 and \u2018feelings\u2019: acting virtuously thus means acting for the \u2018good\u2019, supported by feelings that aim to bring about the \u2018good\u2019 in everyday life. However, in order for this inner ethical tension to prosper, it must be embedded in an institution that is equally devoted to the good. Similarly, Paul Ricoeur (1993) holds that ethics is a wish for the good life, with and for others, within just institutions. This wish is implemented through caring deeds towards the self, others and institutions.<br \/>\nAn educational perspective may develop out of a rediscovery of the Aristotelian position, which presents itself as an ethic of virtues and was the first to define the concept of virtue: a disposition which brings about a good situation when enacted in a certain context. Virtue, therefore, is the disposition of seeking the best possible interpretation of a thing, the best feeling to feel at a certain moment, and orienting such feelings and knowledge towards a good objective and in the right measure. If, as Aristotle points out in Nicomachean Ethics, the goal of ethics is the search for the good, the good for human beings is a good quality of inner life, a quality that is achieved by acting well, that is, according to virtue. Beginning from Aristotelian thought and relating it to Platonic ideas, Mortari (2019) hypothesizes a relationship between:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>intellectual virtues, which apply to the sphere of knowledge and meet the need to pursue a true knowledge of things;<\/li>\n<li>personal or human virtues, which orient the cultivation of the inner life and are exercised on ourselves to shape our own beings;<\/li>\n<li>political virtues, which concern our living together with others in the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mortari\u2019s theoretical and empirical research (2015) shows that virtues are those existential postures that give rise to healing practices, establishing a relation between ethics of virtues and ethics of care. According to this vision, we can promote education in ethics, interpreted as education in virtues according to a perspective of care. In so doing, we can tackle one of the most serious educational fragilities of our time: that feeling of bewilderment that weakens the sense of <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dsu.univr.it\/re-serves\/en\/glossary\/citizenship\/\">citizenship<\/a> and generates forms of <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dsu.univr.it\/re-serves\/en\/glossary\/antisocial-behavior\/\">antisocial behavior<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the RE-SERVES project, the research action Education in friendship to build the common good is developed on the basis of this perspective.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected references<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mortari, L. (2015). Filosofia della cura. Raffaello Cortina.<\/p>\n<p>Mortari, L. (2019). MelArete. Cura Etica Virt\u00f9. Vita e Pensiero.<\/p>\n<p>Nussbaum, M. C. (1988). Non-relative virtues: An Aristotelian approach. Midwest studies in philosophy, 13, 32-53.<\/p>\n<p>MacIntyre, A. (1981). Dopo la virt\u00f9. Saggio di teoria morale. Armando.<\/p>\n<p>Ricoeur, P. (1993). S\u00e9 come un altro. Jaca Book.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  no_margin flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-last  \" style='background: #ffffff; padding:30px; background-color:#ffffff; border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>How to cite this text:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Silva, R., &amp; Ubbiali, M. (2020). Virtue. In M. Milana &amp; P. Perillo (Cur.) 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