Key features of Virtue Ethics 3
- Created by: Silas Kawooya
- Created on: 09-05-12 01:04
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Aristotle main work about morality " Nicomachean Ethics" he believed that what everyone wants most is full and happy life known as Eudaimonia.( difficult translate any meaning happiness). Eudaimonia highest good because we desire it for our own sake and not as means to anything else.
- 3 forms of Happiness- happiness as a life of enjoyment, as free member of society and philosopher. Eudaimonia combination all three.
- Achieve Eudaimonia through develop and exercise qualities that are most productive in society.
- Extremes behaviour unhelpful in society e.g. too timid and too assertive both can cause problems. Virtue can be found within " Golden mean" this is striking balance between extremes. Each extreme…
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