Virtue Ethics Basics
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- Virtue Ethics Basics
- What is a virtue?
- The golden mean between the vices of excess and deficiency
- Good qualities that we copy from others until they become habitual
- Cultivated through practice over a lifetime
- We should focus on perfecting one virtue before we move on to cultivating the next
- Character based
- 'how can i be a better person?'
- Different to most ethical theories that are based around 'what should i do?'
- Not focuesd on the morality of individual acts
- 'how can i be a better person?'
- Eudaimonia
- Ultimate happiness
- Human flourishing
- Achived by cultivating virtues over a lifetime
- Superior aim
- Different Societies
- Aristotle understood that different places have different morals, so what's considered a virtue will vary from place to place.
- Unlike other philosophers, he didn't have to try and guess what future society may be like to keep his theory relevant, it can change with the times.
- Vices and Golden Mean
- Vices
- Too much (excess) or too little (deficiancy) of a quality/trait.
- Golden mean
- The middlegorund between the vice of excess and the vice of deficiancy to find the virtue
- Vices
- Why do we become virtuous?
- To reach Eudaimonia
- Human Flourishing
- Superior aim
- To reach Eudaimonia
- How do we become virtuous?
- Cultivated over a lifetime
- Practiced until the virtuous reaction becomes habitual
- Has to be interior not exterior acts to be virtuous
- Practiced until the virtuous reaction becomes habitual
- When making a moral decision, think of the most virtuous person you know and ask 'what would they do?'
- Cultivated over a lifetime
- Modern thinkers linked to Virtue Ethics
- Philippa Foot
- Elizabeth Anscombe
- Mary Midgley
- Elizabeth Anscombe
- Philippa Foot
- What is a virtue?
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