|
Advantages
- Individual's whole personality considered-not mere action they perform
- not legalistic and allows for personal autonomy
- exists without the requirement of religion
- appeals to human intuitions - most of us would want to reach for eudaimonia
- eliminates dangerous and unhelpful vices in society
- Golden mean-flexible concept for situation and individual e.g. soldier vs mother for courage
|
Disadvantages
- how do we know who is virtuous?
- different people argue for different virtues - Nietzsche/Machiavelli example
- aren't 'deficient' and 'excessive' subjective words to use?
- how do we work out a golden mean? How do we know if we're right?
- two or more virtues may conflict
- goodness is not reached in one way - Owen Flanagan argues that"people find their good in many different ways."
- goodness is not reached in one way - Owen Flanagan argues that"people find their good in many different ways."
- MacIntyre's reliance on community brings up another weakness of virtue ethics: it is not culturally aware.-relative to culture what's considered virtuous
|
Comments
No comments have yet been made