Practical Virtue Ethics
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- Practical Virtue Ethics
- Problem: Hursthouse doesn't demonstrate how particular character traits could be applied to specific cases.
- Martha Nussbaum, academic at University of Chicago
- Uses principle of phronesis to examine issues
- Defintion: a Greek word - practical wisdom
- The ability to reflect on what ought to be dine and achieve a virtuous end & what effects that action will have
- Defintion: a Greek word - practical wisdom
- Uses principle of phronesis to examine issues
- Phronesis
- Concept taken from Aristotle
- He believed the moral life is unbuilt into rational humans
- We discover the nature of the universe & moral structure through sophia (wisdom)
- He believed the moral life is unbuilt into rational humans
- Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics argues ethical theories need practical application
- Humans use rational process of phronesis to discover best means of applying moral concepts to real world
- Phronesis: loosely translated as practical wisdom - a rational process of the mind
- Discovers the practical means for applying moral concepts to life
- It involves rational reflection & deciding how to put reflection into practice
- Phronesis: loosely translated as practical wisdom - a rational process of the mind
- Humans use rational process of phronesis to discover best means of applying moral concepts to real world
- Concept taken from Aristotle
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