Motive (or warm) Virtue Ethics Elizabeth Anscombe
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Motive (or warm)
Virtue Ethics Elizabeth Anscombe
- Conversion to Catholicism helped determine her philosophical ideas
- Rejects the 'is/ought' dichotomy
- Explains by referring to a houseplant
- 1. Come home one day and find your pot plants is limp through lack of water
- 2. Give it water it lacks & hopefully the plant recovers
- 3. A common sense understanding of is/ought
- Just because plant is limp doesn't meant it ought to be
- 4. Plant is limp because it lacks water
- You know what to do so you provide it with water
- Intention - A develops idea of houseplant
- Analogy of a man shopping in a supermarket
- 1. He has shopping list - ingredients for a meal
- 2. Walks around placing ingredients into basket
- 3. Suppose,he acts impulsively and ignores list - buys what he wants
- 4. Leaves supermarket and returns home
- 5. Brought wrong ingredients - cannot blame list
- It's his fault - whether it is drawn by himself or his partner
- Analogy of a man shopping in a supermarket
- Analogy of man applied to ethics
- Shopping list = moral virtues
- 1. Moral agent walks around ethical supermarket
- 2. What doesn't count: who created list
- The intention of moral agent is VITAL
- For A, moral ingredients Christian virtues
- Therefore, VE concerned with ensuring MA makes right decisions
- Individuals choosing the right ingredients needed for a good life & not live impulsively
- View leads A to assert the importance: of the law of double effect in morality
- Since it's based on intentions of MG
- View leads A to assert the importance: of the law of double effect in morality
- Individuals choosing the right ingredients needed for a good life & not live impulsively
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