A Level - RS - Weaknesses of Virtue Ethics Part 1
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- Weaknesses of Virtue Ethics Part 1
- The relativistic, agent centred nature of VE leave it open to justifying negative acts.
- are there things that should not be moral absolutes and therefore always wrong?
- Pojman
- Suggested that the torturing of innocent people for fun is wrong under all circumstances
- Any ethical system needs certain rules that cannot be broken.
- Suggested that the torturing of innocent people for fun is wrong under all circumstances
- Pojman
- are there things that should not be moral absolutes and therefore always wrong?
- The focus on who to be not what to do makes it impossible to use when faced with moral dilemmas
- Bowie draws from Robert Louden wrote in 'On some vices of virtue ethics -1984
- Louden states a number of problems
- argues that is does not provide specific moral dilemmas such as euthanasia which would ultimately are intrinsically and universally wrong
- Louden states a number of problems
- Bowie draws from Robert Louden wrote in 'On some vices of virtue ethics -1984
- The Golden Mean is subjective and flawed
- Hugo Grotius
- Rejected VE. Justice and truthfulness are not a middle way but are ethical absolutes we have a duty to follow
- Robert Louden
- Aristotle tells us that right acts are those which are means between extremes, that is impossible to determine how to apply this conception in actual situations
- "Due to the very nature of moral virtues, there is thus a very limited amount of advice on moral quandaries that one can reasonably expect from the virtue-oriented approach"
- Aristotle tells us that right acts are those which are means between extremes, that is impossible to determine how to apply this conception in actual situations
- Hugo Grotius
- The relativistic, agent centred nature of VE leave it open to justifying negative acts.
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