Virtue Ethics mindmap
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- Created on: 23-11-17 22:44
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- Virtue Ethics
- Eudamonia is the goal
- It means happiness or fulfilment
- There are three aspects of happiness according to Aristotle: a life of enjoyment, a life of freedom and being a philosopher
- Moral and intellectual virtues
- Moral virtues are acquired through habit and developed through practice
- Courage, temperance, liberality, generosity, pride, proper ambition, patience, truthfulness, wittiness, friendliness, modesty, righteous indignation
- Intellectual virtues are developed through education
- Intelligence, scientific knowledge, wisdom, artistic endeavour and prudence
- The four key virtues of most importance are temperance, courage, justice and wisdom
- Wisdom is the virtue that drives all other virtues
- Moral virtues are acquired through habit and developed through practice
- Aristotle's doctrine of the mean
- Cultivating virtues is to balance the two extremes of excess and deficiency
- Each virtue has an associated vice
- Jesus' teachings on virtues
- In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus promotes specific qualities
- Poor in spirit, mourning, meek, a hunger for righteousness, mercy, purity of heart, peacemakers, the persecuted
- In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus promotes specific qualities
- Challenges
- Does not fall within deonotological or teleological categories due to its focus on character
- Not a practical guide to moral behaviour
- Too complex and dependent on the good of others
- Can be considered culturally biased
- Can be contradictory and self-centred
- Eudamonia is the goal
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