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Virtue Ethics
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- 1What are the cardinal virtues?Justice
Temperance
Courage
Prudence - 2What are intellectual virtues?Virtues of the mind
Such as the ability to understand, reason and make sound judgement
Taught - 3What are moral virtues?Not innate
Through practice they are acquired
Habitual - 4Finish Aristotle's quotes... "We are what we repeatedly do...""...Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit"
- 5What is Aristotle's Golden Mean?A virtue between two vices of excess and deficiency
- 6What is Nicomachean Ethics?Aristotle's work on virtue ethics
Lecture notes - 7How did Mill (utilitarianism) think we had to do to be a good person?Rule
Greatest good for greatest number
Think about actions on consequences
Can't ignore minorities -Bentham --> Act - 8How did Kant believe us to be good?Categorical imperative
1)Universality
2)Autonomous
3)Kingdom of End
Treats as end, not means. Duty and reject emotions - 9What is eudaimonia?Greek
Human flourishing - 10How does Aristotle define eudaimonia?"the activity of reason in accordance with virtue in a complete life"
- 11Give a Golden mean for these vices: - Rashness -CowardiceCourage
- 12What is the supreme virtue?Reason
- 13What is phronesis?Practical wisdom
Enables us to make ethically right decisions - 14What does arete mean?A skill at which one becomes excellent through practice (Aristotle)
- 15Give examples of Virtuous people?Nelson Mandela
Jesus
Mother Teresa - 16What did MacIntyre believe?Believed meta ethics divorced people from ethics
Complained that modern ethics put too much emphasis on the reason and not enough stress on people, their characteristics and the context of their lives - 17What did Anscombe believe?God was original legislator
Missing heart of ethics
System needs to be rethought - 18What does MacIntyre argue about reason?Virtues may be desirable
But need a motive/reason to do so
No good relying on natural goodness
Consequences matter
Degree of consequentialism - 19Who believes virtues are not fixed for all time, but change with the times- so different qualities of character will be valued at different times?MacIntyre
- 20What did Nussbaum believe?Interprets Aristotle's virtues as absolutes
Disagrees with MacIntyre- cardinal virtues are fixed throughout time and part of human flourishing. MacIntyre believed they weren't fixed. She believed that a relativist approach is incompatible with Aristotle's virtue theory. - 21What does Hursthouse believe?Virtue ethics may not explain exactly how a person should act, but does explain how a virtuous person should think.
- 22What did Foot argue?Argued that the wise person directs their will to what is good and a good is something that is both intrinsically and extrinsically good as both the motives and action are important. Goodness should be seen as the natural flourishing of humans- ethics should not be dry but about making the world a better place.
- 23What sums up Foot?For Foot, virtues influence our characters until we become virtuous.
- 24What did Foot believe about the Holocaust?Events like the Holocaust made her reject the idea that morality is a subjective experience. Virtue is objective in nature.
- 25What did Slote think?Develops idea of motives.
Calls this warm ethics; since it is based on sentiments
Traditional approaches to virtue ethics as cold and clinical.
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- A level Psychology Fichas sobre Virtue Ethics , creado por Ashleigh Barden el 12/10/2016.
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