Cultivating ethical expertise

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Lee, Marcus (2020) Cultivating ethical expertise. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

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Abstract

The skill model of ethical expertise holds that becoming an ethical expert is (like) becoming an expert in a practical skill. This model of ethical education was advocated by philosophers in both ancient Greece and ancient China. In this thesis, I critique a prominent contemporary account of the skill model of virtue by attending to the phenomenology of the learning process involved in acquiring a practical skill. Situating this critique within a Merleau-Pontyian framework, I then develop a two-tiered account of ‘awareness’ which I use to explicate novel views of the epistemology of both virtue and the ancient Chinese ethical ideal wu-wei.

Item Type: Thesis (University of Nottingham only) (PhD)
Supervisors: Sinclair, Neil
Woodard, Christopher
Keywords: Virtue, Wu-Wei, Skill, Practical Expertise, Understanding, Annas, Zhuangzi, Merleau-Ponty
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General)
B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Faculties/Schools: UK Campuses > Faculty of Arts > School of Humanities
Item ID: 60627
Depositing User: Lee, Marcus
Date Deposited: 08 Feb 2024 14:00
Last Modified: 28 Feb 2025 14:55
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/60627

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