... offer a fully fledged pragmatic account of the virtues of character as traits desirable in themselves a well as desirable for their instrumental value. The second edition of Ethics differs from the first, but not in ways that correct the problems noted above. While the 1908 text suggested traditional virtues were praised because they were thought to promote the good, the 1932 text reverses this, suggesting these ... than partly constitute human flourishing. In any case, it seems he never did so. But if he gave up on developing a pragmatic account of the virtues as a part of his moral th...

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