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Virtue Ethics
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- 1Who made Virtue ethics?Aristotle
- 2What was the name of the book he wrote it in?Nicomachean ethics.
- 3Is Virtue Ethics teleological or deontological?Teleological
- 4What is our telos according to Aristotle?Eudaimonia
- 5What does that roughly translate to?Human flourishing, the striving for perfection,
- 6What does Aristotle reject eudaimonia to be?Pleasure / momentary happiness
- 7What does the 'function argument' (that Aristotle poses) propose?That something that is 'good' is something that achieves its purpose (its function).
E.g a 'good' knife cuts well - 8What is the function of humans?To be reach eudaimonia. This is possible through learning characterful qualities and flourishing in life.
- 9What is the soul according to aristotle?Not apart from our body, but more like the form/blueprint of the body.
- 10What characteristics do human souls have?- nutrition and growth
- movement
- sense perception
- reason - 11What are the virtues?The balance between character vices e.g:
- courage (brashness vs cowardice)
- honesty (dishonesty vs brutal honesty) - 12What was the term used for the balance between vices?The Golden mean
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- A level (Normative Ethical Theories) Philosophy and Ethics Fichas sobre Virtue Ethics, creado por Jack Lynch el 16/12/2019.
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