A Level - RS - Modern Approach - Alastair MacIntyre Part 1
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- Modern Approach - Alastair MacIntyre Part 1
- In 'After Virtue' (Duckworth 1997)
- He claimed that virtues are not static and unchanging
- but come out of the communities in which they are to be practiced
- Virtues belonging to particular times and places
- have a historical context.
- Thus making virtue ethics useful and appropriate for modern living because they can move and change as culture changes
- He observed "The whole human life reaches it's highest point in the activity of a spectacular philosopher with a reasonable income."
- Thus making virtue ethics useful and appropriate for modern living because they can move and change as culture changes
- have a historical context.
- Virtues belonging to particular times and places
- but come out of the communities in which they are to be practiced
- He claimed that virtues are not static and unchanging
- He noted that deontological and consequential-ist theories are of little value
- They are too time consuming and complex.
- A virtue based approach is more realistic and applicable to everyday life.
- When people are faced with moral dilemmas they tend to naturally turn to virtue based answers
- they are the most realistic and applicable
- When people are faced with moral dilemmas they tend to naturally turn to virtue based answers
- A virtue based approach is more realistic and applicable to everyday life.
- They are too time consuming and complex.
- He supports, yet refines Ari's original views
- Main goal of virtue is to provide humans with a good reason for acting morally
- Introduced 'Practice' - found in all human societies
- are ways of acting through 'internal goods'
- which lead to standards of excellencies.
- He wrote -
- "Any coherent and complex form of socially-established co-operative human activity, through which goods internal to that form of activity are realised in the course of trying to achieve those standards of excellence..."
- "...which are appropriate to that form of the activity with the result that human powers to achieve excellence are extended."
- "Any coherent and complex form of socially-established co-operative human activity, through which goods internal to that form of activity are realised in the course of trying to achieve those standards of excellence..."
- He wrote -
- which lead to standards of excellencies.
- are ways of acting through 'internal goods'
- Introduced 'Practice' - found in all human societies
- Main goal of virtue is to provide humans with a good reason for acting morally
- In 'After Virtue' (Duckworth 1997)
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