Weaknesses of Virtue Ethics
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- Created on: 28-03-17 21:24
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- Weaknesses of Virtue Ethics
- Robert Louden: concentration on the individual
- It doesn't resolve or attempt to resolve big moral dilemmas
- Helps someone become virtuous doesn't give answers when person is faced with ethical crisis
- It is particularist
- It concentrates on limited number of virtues
- Ignores the bigger picture
- Modern society is far too big, bureaucratic & universal to be affected by a moral philosophy that looks at small things
- Modern democracies cannot make ethical decisions based on individual character traits
- They need to look at consequences of actions on population as whole
- Modern democracies cannot make ethical decisions based on individual character traits
- It concentrates on limited number of virtues
- Asserts there are character traits
- Difficult to support & rejected by many psychologists
- Gilbert Harman - regards character traits as illusions
- Praises Golden Mean might be regarded as foolish
- Example: courage seen as moral virtue
- Modern VEs don't distinguish between solider's courage and that of a civilian
- Might be seen as foolhardy if civilian acts courageous in risky situation
- Modern VEs don't distinguish between solider's courage and that of a civilian
- Example: courage seen as moral virtue
- Ignores the relativist dilemma
- Virtue might be different in China than in the UK
- Robert Louden: concentration on the individual
- It is particularist
- It concentrates on limited number of virtues
- Ignores the bigger picture
- Modern society is far too big, bureaucratic & universal to be affected by a moral philosophy that looks at small things
- Modern democracies cannot make ethical decisions based on individual character traits
- They need to look at consequences of actions on population as whole
- Modern democracies cannot make ethical decisions based on individual character traits
- It concentrates on limited number of virtues
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