Aretaic = focus on character, desire to become certain qualities. Not "normative". "eudimonia", qualities of happiness, aristotle.
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Aristotle 1
Plato taught him, rejected plato. Plato = metaphysical goodness, good is real and ultimate reality, source of our being, job to contemplate it. Aristotle = psychological/naturalistic account, part of natural disp. Purpose. Ethical life in tune. Teleo
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Aristotle + happiness.
Pleasure seekers, honour seekers, lovers of contemp. Humans are reasonable (rational animals) strive.
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Aristotle + human soul
Rational = calculative, scientific, a priori knowledge. Irrational. VE = full harmonious use.
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Aristotle + good life
Doctrine of the mean. Middle of extremes no deficiant or excess. Courage (not coward or rash). Through practice/habit. 12 key moral values (courage ambition friendly modest)
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Modern
1958 Elizabeth - go back, goodness now action not people. 1981 Alisdair Macintyre, nor enough focus on people. Homeric virtues (courage/cunning). Athenian (justice courage retri) (temperance wisdom distr). Virtues needed, enlightenment, his + GW.
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Arguments for
Rosalind Hursthouse (no guidelines X), VE focus on self not indiv (X harder to judge), GE ANSCOMBE (X some of CNML rel), Diana hsieh, Eudamonia, Ve not calc robot like UT (needed at times?)
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Arguments against
No clear rules Robert Lauden (Rosalind H abortion), Hugo Grotius, People do bad things think virtuous, Pojman, VE asses own chracter only jusdge on acts
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Plato taught him, rejected plato. Plato = metaphysical goodness, good is real and ultimate reality, source of our being, job to contemplate it. Aristotle = psychological/naturalistic account, part of natural disp. Purpose. Ethical life in tune. Teleo
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Aristotle 1
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Pleasure seekers, honour seekers, lovers of contemp. Humans are reasonable (rational animals) strive.
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Rational = calculative, scientific, a priori knowledge. Irrational. VE = full harmonious use.
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Doctrine of the mean. Middle of extremes no deficiant or excess. Courage (not coward or rash). Through practice/habit. 12 key moral values (courage ambition friendly modest)
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