Virtue ethics
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- Aristotle: Virtue Ethics
- Key words
- Arete: moral virtue/ excellence of any kind
- Set of morals
- Personal to each person
- Ergon: the function of an object
- Reason is the ergon of a human
- Eudaimonia: gained by the development of virtues/ The good life
- You are the best version of yourself you can be
- Arete: moral virtue/ excellence of any kind
- Agent based ethics: morality is based on the person
- What makes a good person is their morals
- 'Good' can be applied in every culture
- The Golden mean= virtue
- Deficiency: lack of virtue
- Deficiency: Coward
- Virtue: Courageous
- Excess: Rash
- Virtue: Courageous
- Deficiency: Coward
- Excess: too much of a virtue
- Excess: Rash
- Desirable middle between two extremes
- Deficiency: lack of virtue
- Practical wisdom: intellectual virtue that helps us know what the right time/object/ motive/way/ person is
- Acquired through good habit
- Virtuous by practice
- Function argument
- every object has a function
- Knife: to cut
- Human: reason
- Something is virtuous if it performs its function without excess or deficiency
- every object has a function
- Voluntary and involuntary actions
- V: intended and we can be blamed for these
- E.g. someone drowning at sea: intention to save: courageous. \Intention to drown: coward
- IV: there are two types of involuntary actions
- Compulsion: acts which are partly due to our intentions, yet partly contrary: e.g. robbery due to blackmail
- Non-voluntary actions (ignorance): unintended acts due to unforeseen consequneces
- V: intended and we can be blamed for these
- Strengths
- Can be applied to all cultures and situations as it is based on the person, not the outcome or action
- Issues
- Doesn't tell us how to act
- Clashing virtues: honesty and caring for friends feelings
- Circular argument
- virtue is what a virtue does virtue does whatever a virtue is
- Key words
- Deficiency: Coward
- Virtue: Courageous
- Virtue: Courageous
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