José Caetano de Mattos

THE PERIODIC TABLE OF THE VIRTUES: A Coordinate Classification of Moral Forms, Their Occupations, and Their Compounds

Abstract A periodic table is not a list with headings. It is a coordinate system in which position carries predictive content, vacancies are falsifiable predictions, and the classification is closed under the operations of the underlying theory. This paper constructs such a syste...

THE PERIODIC TABLE OF THE VIRTUES: A Coordinate Classification of Moral Forms, Their Occupations, and Their Compounds

Abstract A periodic table is not a list with headings. It is a coordinate system in which position carries predictive content, vacancies are falsifiable predictions, and the classification is closed under the operations of the underlying theory. This paper constructs such a syste...