A Level - RS - Strengths of Virtue Ethics Part 2
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- Strengths of Virtue Ethics Part 2
- Virtue Ethics is concerned with all of society
- Eudaimonia - is community focused and not focused entirely on the individual and their happiness
- Aristotle said "man is a political and social animals"
- Ari - "While it is desirable to secure what is good in the case of an individual..."
- "..to do so in the case of a people or state is something finer and more sublime"
- Eudaimonia - is community focused and not focused entirely on the individual and their happiness
- The Virtues could been seen as absolutes and enhances and safeguards society in all times
- Nassbaum
- interprets Aristotle's virtues as absolutes
- she claims that justice, temperance, generosity etc.
- are given sufficient priority as essential elements of human flourishing
- Across all society and throughout time.
- are given sufficient priority as essential elements of human flourishing
- she claims that justice, temperance, generosity etc.
- interprets Aristotle's virtues as absolutes
- Nassbaum
- VE leaves aside the dangerous religious ideology of other ethical theories
- Richard Taylor in Virtue Ethics
- Argued that a system of morality which is based on divine command can discourage people from achieving their potential.
- Christianity places too much emphasis on human equality and does not encourage individual to strive to be virtuous
- Argued that a system of morality which is based on divine command can discourage people from achieving their potential.
- Richard Taylor in Virtue Ethics
- Virtue Ethics is concerned with all of society
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