Virtue ethics

Question 1

what is phronesis

Answer 1

practical wisdom
highest form of virtue
we develop it through looking at authority figures and then later reflecting on them

Question 2

what is the golden mean

Answer 2

where virtues are found
middle point between vice of excess and vice of deficiency

example too much wine kills little wine is good for the heart

Question 3

virtue ethics

Answer 3

agent centered
goal is eudomonia
it allows society to progress

Question 4

The archer example

Answer 4

aristotle believed becoming virtues is like the archer reaching for the middle point as we do for golden mean
archer gets better with practice ad ppl get virtuous with practice

Question 5

intellectual virtue

Answer 5

developed through education
associated with our characteristics ad reason
things like maths and philosophy are intellectual virtues

Question 6

moral virtues

Answer 6

qualities such as courage or temperance

we develop it through practice until it is a habit

Question 7

becoming virtues

Answer 7

practice
following example of others
we have to be brought up in the right environment