VIRTUE ETHICS
Another brief summary of the subunit Virtue Ethics for the second exam of the A2 Philosophy course for OCR.
- Aristotle's belifes outlines
- Application of virtue ethics today
- Brief explanations
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- Created on: 17-02-14 23:07
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- VIRTUE ETHICS
- ARISTOTLE
- Aristotle believed that everyone aspires to have a good, happy and full life for its own sake - Eudaimonia
- EUDAIMONIA
- To reach Eudaimonia we must practice behaviors and qualities best suited to living in a community, along side other people, with due regard and concern for the education of future generations.
- THE GOLDEN MEAN
- We can understand what qualities are virtuous by reaching a median between two extremes - finding the golden mean.
- Eg. Just resentment instead of callousness or spitefullness
- We can understand what qualities are virtuous by reaching a median between two extremes - finding the golden mean.
- Human Flourishing.
- EUDAIMONIA
- To reach Eudaimonia we must practice behaviors and qualities best suited to living in a community, along side other people, with due regard and concern for the education of future generations.
- EUDAIMONIA
- He also believed that there was a difference between intellectual virtues and moral virtues.
- EUDAIMONIA
- Aristotle believed that everyone aspires to have a good, happy and full life for its own sake - Eudaimonia
- Virtuous people behave in the right way
- We can learn and experience what it is to be virtuous by looking at a virtuous person.
- Thus, by imitating the virtuous behaviors and qualities of others we will become, ourselves, virtuous and so ethically virtuous (make the right moral decisions).
- Eg. Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jesus.
- We can learn and experience what it is to be virtuous by looking at a virtuous person.
- REVIVAL OF VIRTUE ETHICS
- ELIZABETH ANSCOMBE ''Human flourishing or Eudaimonia does not depend on a notion of a deity.''
- Morality surviving independently of the moral argument for the existence of God.
- ELIZABETH ANSCOMBE ''Human flourishing or Eudaimonia does not depend on a notion of a deity.''
- ARISTOTLE
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