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- 1Aristotle Acquiring Virtues (1)"We acquire virtues by first doing virtuous acts. We acquire a skill by practising the activities involved in the skill... For example, we become builders by building in the same way we become just by doing just acts and courageous by doing acts
of courage" - 2Aristotle Acquiring Virtues (2)"For Just as one swallow or one day
does not make a spring, so one day or
short time does not make for a
fortunate or happy man" - 3Aristotle Acquiring Virtues (3)"We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit" - 4Aristotle Eudaimonia"Happiness, then, is something
final and self-suffiencent, and
is the end of action" - 5Aristotle"Every art and every enquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good had rightly been declared to be that at which all things jam"
- 6Aristotle Achieving EudaimoniaHappiness is "an activity of soul in accordance with virtue"
- 7Aristotle Purpose"If we take a flautist or a sculptor or any
artists.. his goodness and proficiency is
considered to lie in the performance of
that function: and the same will be true of
man" - 8Elizabeth Anscombe"In a secular age modern moral philosophy is misguided because it rests
on the notion of a law without a 'law giver'"
- Believed we had gotten rid of God, and was a committed Catholic herself - 9Alastair Macintyre Virtues"Any virtues which sustain the households and communities in which men and women seek for good everyday life"
Justice, courage, honesty and excellence - 10Philippa Foot"Nobody can get on well if he lacks courage, and does not have some measure of temperance or wisdom, while the communities where justice and charity are lacking are apt to be wretched places to live, as Russia was under Stalinist terror, or Sicily under the Mafia"
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- Flashcards on VE quotes , created by Grace Gregory on 28/12/2015.
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- Grace Gregory · Dec 2015
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- May 11, 2016
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