Rosalind Hursthouse's account of virtue ethics holds that a virtue reliably motivates right action across relevantly similar cases, constituting a structural invariance in practical reasoning.
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Structural invariance(as used in logic and mathematics)
The property of staying unchanged in form or pattern when you look at different but equivalent logical structures.
Virtue ethics(in philosophy)
An approach to ethics focused on developing good character traits (virtues like courage or honesty) rather than following rules or calculating outcomes.
practical reasoning(Central to the full attribution of intentional agency)
The capacity to treat the contents of mental attitudes as premises in reasoning that leads to action
virtue(Valla's voluntarist account of virtue)
A quality that resides in the will, governing actions to which moral qualifications are assigned.