Virtue Ethics Flashcards
(11 cards)
Who came up with virtue ethics
Aristotle
What is it called when you have too much of a vice
Vice excess
What is it called when you have too little of a vice
Vice deficiency
Too much vice
Vice excess
Too little vice
Vice deficiency
What comes between vice deficiency and vice excess
The golden mean
Give an example of a virtue and its two vices
Golden mean - courage, vice deficiency - cowardice, vice excess - rashness, foolishness
What is eudamonia
the aim, goal or telos of every human being – happiness, ‘the good life’, or flourishing
What did Aristotle believe about learning moral virtues
Aristotle believed that moral virtues could not be learned in the way mathematics or the capitals of
all the countries in Europe could; they can only learned through practice. He explains:
“Men become builders by building, and lyre players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing
just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts…”
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What did Aristotle believe about character
A person’s actions flow or stem from the sort of person they are. A kind person is much more likely to
perform a kind action than a nasty person, for example. So people should be interested in the first place
in cultivating virtue.
What did Aristotle believe about character
A person’s actions flow or stem from the sort of person they are. A kind person is much more likely to
perform a kind action than a nasty person, for example. So people should be interested in the first place
in cultivating virtue.
