Virtue Ethics (Virtue Theory)
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- Created on: 10-02-18 13:01
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- Virtue Theory
- Created by Plato
- Developed by Aristotle
- About being a good person and doing good things because they are good
- Not about following rules or aiming at a consequnce
- Relative and agent centered
- Aims
- Superior Aim
- Do something because it's good to accomplish Eudaimonia
- Subordinate Aim
- Do something to achieve a purpose
- Superior Aim
- Eudaimonia
- Hard to achieve a life of good character
- Ultimate aim is a supreme good
- There's not one approach to achieving - relative
- Four Cardinal Virtues
- Temperance
- Courage
- Justice
- Prudence
- Golden Mean
- Balance of two extremes - the excess and deficiency of a virtue
- i .e Unambitious - Right ambition - Over ambitious
- i.e Cowardice- Courage- Rashness
- i.e Understate- Truthfulness- Boastfulness
- Capital Vices (Seven Deadly Sins)
- Pride
- Avarice
- Lust
- Envy
- Gluttony
- Anger
- Sloth
- Contrasts Utilitarianism and Absolutist Ethics
- Involves personal responsibility - entirely secular
- Compatible with religion but independent of it
- Morality of a person not action
- Involves personal responsibility - entirely secular
- Created by Plato
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