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IS RUNNING A MARATHON A VIRTUE?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2018

Eldar Sarajlic
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Abstract

Should we congratulate runners who participate and finish a marathon without winning it? Although it might seem that all who muster the will to do so deserve praise, this article questions whether self-regarding virtues, such as running a marathon, deserve it.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 17 , Issue 48 , Spring 2018 , pp. 101 - 105
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2018 

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1 See Curtler, Hugh Mercer, ‘Can Virtue Be Taught?’, Humanitas 7.4 (1994): 43–50 Google Scholar.

2 See Taylor, Gabriele and Wolfram, Sybil, ‘The Self-Regarding and Other-Regarding Virtues’, Philosophical Quarterly 18.72 (1968): 238–48CrossRefGoogle Scholar.