George Heffernan

List of John Benjamins publications for which George Heffernan plays a role.

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Heffernan, George 2019 Chapter 5. Virtues and vices and parts and wholes: A phenomenological analysisControversies in the Contemporary World, Fabris, Adriano and Giovanni Scarafile (eds.), pp. 85–104 | Chapter
This paper addresses a perennial controversy in virtue ethics. In Plato’s dialogue, Protagoras, Socrates argues that virtue is knowledge but doubts whether it can be taught, whereas Protagoras denies that virtue is knowledge but affirms that it can be taught. In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle… read more