Modern views on virtue ethics
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- Modern views on Virtue Ethics
- Elizabeth Anscombe 1919-2001
- Believes all other theories are unable to provide moral guidelines.
- All others rely on punishment or reward and a divine law-giver.
- Morality requires the return of the ideals eudaimonia as outlined by Aristotle.
- Rosalind Hursthouse 1943-
- V. E. doesn't explain how a person should act, instead how a virtuous person would think about the moral dilemma.
- Virtues assist our personal reasoning, enabling us to better ourselves.
- We therefore respond to moral dilemmas in a totally virtuous way.
- If we use virtues, our reasoning will make us be virtuous people.
- Elizabeth Anscombe 1919-2001
- Philippa Foot 1920-
- Modern views on Virtue Ethics
- Elizabeth Anscombe 1919-2001
- Believes all other theories are unable to provide moral guidelines.
- All others rely on punishment or reward and a divine law-giver.
- Morality requires the return of the ideals eudaimonia as outlined by Aristotle.
- Rosalind Hursthouse 1943-
- V. E. doesn't explain how a person should act, instead how a virtuous person would think about the moral dilemma.
- Virtues assist our personal reasoning, enabling us to better ourselves.
- We therefore respond to moral dilemmas in a totally virtuous way.
- If we use virtues, our reasoning will make us be virtuous people.
- Elizabeth Anscombe 1919-2001
- Modern views on Virtue Ethics
- Richard Taylor 1919-2003
- Thought religion doesn't allow flourishing and achieving personal eudaimonia.
- Said religion emphasises 'self-negating' equality and therefore doesn't push people to become greater and better individuals.
- V. E. is good to him as it encourages personal development, unlike religion.
- Michael Slote 1941-
- He corrects the use of 'good' and 'bad' in V. E.
- Thinks the words 'admirable' and 'deplorable' should be used instead.
- So now the right actin to pursue would be defined as 'to do the admirable and to avoid the deplorable.
- Attempts to update V.E. whilst sticking to the roots set by Aristotle.
- Virtues enable us to flourish and we should be compassionate to swerve away from our inclination of self-interest.
- Virtues can lead to happiness, they do not guarantee it.
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