Search Legal Terms and Definitions. preliminary hearing. n. in criminal law, a hearing to determine if a person charged with a felony (a serious crime punishable by a term in the state prison) should be tried for the crime charged, based on whether there is some substantial evidence that he/she committed the crime.
On Hume 's view, the judgments and recommendations of traditional morality arise not from reason, but from a moral sense. As a straightforward matter of fact (discoverable by experience), virtue is always accompanied by a feeling of pleasure, and vice by a feeling of pain.
Virtues Virtues are some of the most central characteristics of virtue ethics. Virtue ethics as an approach to moral decisionÂ­making implies that moral conduct assumes good characteristics in a nurse as a moral agent.n this vein, virtue ethics as an approach to moral dilemmas in nursing can provide important insights for them. Virtue ethics, in effect, proposes a very sophisticated theory of moral development.