Re: Virtue Ethics, Deontological Ethics, and Biotechnology

David wrote: "I've studied ethics. I've taught ethics. I've checked the
/Encyclopedia
of Philosophy/ and a couple dictionaries of philosophy. I've not found
any reference to virtue ethics. The standard pair among philosophers is
deontological ethics (duty centered) and teleological or axiological
ethics (value centered)."

This is interesting. I've studied ethics twice, once at the Austin
Community College and again, ten years later, at Iliff Seminary in
Denver.

In both instances the professors (Ken Hamstra at Austin CC in the 1990s
and, ten years later, Dana Wilbanks at Iliff) clearly separated ethics
into three approaches, Deontological, Consequential and Virtue. At one
time I had a specific text or two which discussed these-- maybe they are
in that box downstairs. The three categories make much sense to me.

I did not know there was a controversy on this.

Burgy

(way behind in reading the list -- sorry)
Received on Mon May 22 14:35:04 2006