Virtue Ethics
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- Created on: 28-04-19 15:02
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- Virtue Ethics
- Strengths
- it's focused on being a good person, not just doing good things
- morality is important at every moment in life
- if achieved, you can easily make decisions in the moment
- don't need to predict outcomes of decisions
- Weaknesses
- too hard
- "that is not for everyone, nor is it easy"
- too vague
- what role models should we emulate?
- Joan of Arc?
- Kim Kardashian?
- Mother Teresa?
- no totally (im)moral behaviours
- too hard
- Eudaimonia
- the supreme good
- the final purpose of humans
- flourishing, living well, happiness, a good quality of life
- kind of like the joy that comes at the end of a very long day
- 12 virtues
- modesty
- Self Control
- friendliness
- just resentment
- Magnificence
- Courage
- Generosity
- high-mindedness
- right ambition
- good temper
- truthfulness
- wittiness
- context for applications(Aristotle was the creator)
- Homosexuality
- homosexuality was a common theme in religion
- Ganymede and Zeus
- Daphnis and Pan
- Ameinias and Narcissus
- Achilles and Patroclus
- greek society didn't define sexuality in reality to gender of the participants
- more "top and bottom" than "man and woman"
- same sex marriage did not and does not exist
- homosexuality was a common theme in religion
- Trans issues
- trans and GNC people existed in mythology
- Dionysus
- often seen as Non binary
- Caenus
- born female and asked Poseidon to turn him male
- Dionysus
- trans and GNC people existed in mythology
- Islam
- Aristotle was not a prophet of Islam
- he lived roughly 11 centuries before it's creation
- Aristotle was not a prophet of Islam
- marriage
- aristotle was married to Pythias
- he saw women as a subject to their husband
- capital punishment
- justice is "every virtue summed up"
- capital punishment was practiced in ancient greece
- but you could legally exile yourself instead
- aristotle was taught by plato, who was taught by socrates, who underwent capital punishment by poisoning
- foetus issues
- "let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun"
- animal issues
- Aristotle experimented on Animals
- Hierarchy of souls - humans are more important
- **** fights were popular forms of entertainment
- ancient greeks ate many types of fish/bird
- not as intensively farmed
- animal sacrifices were often "asked for permission" to be sacrificed
- you'll need context to pad out the essay because virtue ethics is really hard to talk about
- Homosexuality
- quotes
- "moral excellence comes about as a result of habit"
- "some vices miss what it is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive"
- cowardice < courage < recklessness
- "that is not for everyone, nor is it easy"
- Strengths
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