Flashcards in Virtue Ethics Deck (12)
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How is the Virtue Theory different from most ethical theories?
Instead of doing the right thing in a given situation it focuses on how one can be a better person.
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Virtue Ethics began in Greek philosophy originated from which philosopher?
Aristotle who studied under Plato.
3
Aristotle's key argument is that...
Everything an individual does is for an end, an ultimate end is the chief good.
4
In Virtue Ethics what is the main goal of life?
Eudaemonia which everyone should peruse.
5
How must you gain the 'golden mean' or 'middle way'?
Find the middle way between a vice of deficiency and vice of excess. For example, courage is the middle way between cowardice and rashness.
6
What does this phrase refer to: "the road to hell is paved with good intentions"
That in following virtue ethics you can know what is good but there will be a need to resist other temptations on the path to Eudaemonia or 'the supreme happiness'.
7
Who criticised deontology and teleological ethical practices and how?
Elizabeth Anscombe argued they are both pre-occupied with rules instead of taking account psychology and emotions.
8
Anscombe criticises moral theories as they...
Allow any moral act if it brings around any good.
9
Similar to Anscombe, Alasdair MacIntyre suggests what?
That we shouldn't be focused on laws/rules we should be asking moral questions of how to make the most of human lives.
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Who likens becoming a better person to how a parent helps a child grow in relation to their personal strengths and weaknesses?
Keenan
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Alasdair Mac Intyre thinks virtues are to be understood how?
Within communities not just individually.
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