Virtues and vices; virtues and excellence; human function; doctrine of the mean; habits; wisdom; advantages and disadvantages
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Virtues and vices
Virtues: Good character traits or dispositions. Vices: Bad character traits or dispositions.
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Virtues and Excellence
Can tell what trait is good/bad through functions, and how well it does it e.g. lyre player. Moral excellence.
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Human function
Three parts of the soul 1. Nutritive 2. Appetitive 3. Rational. Two types of virtues: moral and intellectual.
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The Doctrine of the Mean
Middle ground between the vices and the virtues.
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Habits
We are moral by second nature. Through education and pleasure.
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Wisdom
The virtue of our practical reason. When, how, in what way.
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Advantages of Virtue Ethics
1. Being a good moral agent = being a good human 2. Connects what is right with our being motivated to do the right thing 3. Other theories are too impartial
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Problems for Virtue Ethics
1. Does not offer enough guidance 2. Requires us to transform character traits - possible? 3. Can anyone be moral (Slote) 4. Cannot account for collective moral problems
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Card 2
Front
Virtues: Good character traits or dispositions. Vices: Bad character traits or dispositions.
Back
Virtues and vices
Card 3
Front
Can tell what trait is good/bad through functions, and how well it does it e.g. lyre player. Moral excellence.
Back
Card 4
Front
Three parts of the soul 1. Nutritive 2. Appetitive 3. Rational. Two types of virtues: moral and intellectual.
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