VIRTUE ETHICS

VIRTUE ETHICS

1. THE NATURE OF THE GOOD

   • Hence the good has been well defined as that at which all things aim.
     • But it is clear that there is a difference in the ends; for the ends are sometimes activities, and sometimes results beyond the mere activities.

2. HAPPINESS: LIVING AND DOING WELL

   • every knowledge and moral purpose aspires to some good
     • The masses and the cultured classes agree in calling it happiness, and conceive that “to live well” or “to do well” is the same thing as “to be happy.”

3. THE FUNCTION OF A PERSON

   • what is wanted is to define its nature a little more clearly.
     • what is wanted is to define its nature a little more clearly.
       • Can it be said then that, while a carpenter and a cobbler have definite functions and actions
   • SOME VIRTUES
     • In respect of pleasures and pains, although not indeed of all pleasures and pains, and to a less extent in respect of pains than of pleasures, the mean state is temperance

4. VIRTUE

   • Virtue or excellence being twofold, partly intellectual and partly moral, intellectual virtue is both originated and fostered mainly by teaching;
     • Moral virtue on the other hand is the outcome of habit

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