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Abstract
Are unfriendly teachers lacking in moral
virtue? The answer given here is that they are.
The author spells out an Aristotelian virtue of
agreeableness and defends it morally along
Aristotelian lines, as well as compliance to
good manners insofar as they involve a display
of agreeableness. Two other strategies for
defending good manners, by reducing them
to other, better established, moral virtues,
and by arguing that they have an independent
non-moral value, are explored and rejected.
The paper focuses on practical examples from
an area where agreeableness is particularly
salient as a moral concern: the school as the
site of profound and sensitive teacher-student
interactions.
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