MacIntyre's Virtue Ethics

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  • MacIntyre's Virtue Ethic
    • The Virtuous Person?
      • Moral Vacuum
        • Modern ethics have lost the practical side of ethics
        • Philosophers do dilemma based ethics which forces people to make impossible choices
        • Subscribe to moral emotivism which states moral statements reflects only our feeling
        • Enlightenment ethics have failed due to the abandonment of Aristotelian teleology
        • Virtue must be developed in order to get out of this  vacuum, better ourselves and our society
      • Virtues
        • anything that ''sustains the households and the communities where men and women seek for good together
        • include Justice, Honesty Courage
    • How to become Virtuous?
      • Virtues are developed through shared practices - actions done for and with the community
      • Communities have agreed upon virtues which, if followed by everyone leads to bettering and sustaining society
      • Actions have internal and external goods
        • Internal goods result directly from the action e.g. giving to charity helps people. If intention is to do the internal good it uses and develops the virtues
        • External goods results indirectly from the actions e.g. fame for charity work. If intention for action is achieving external goods then it could develop vice such as greed in this case

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