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CHAPTER 4: Virtue Ethics Flashcards

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philosophy developed by Aristotle and other ancient Greeks

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Virtue ethics

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Virtue ethics philosophy developed by ____ and other ancient____

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Aristotle
Greeks

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It is the quest to understand and live a life of moral character.

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Virtue Ethics

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This character-based approach to morality assumes that we acquire virtue through practice.

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Virtue Ethics

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Virtue ethics is ____approach to morality assumes that we acquire virtue through practice.

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character-based

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Virtue ethics is a character-based approach to ___ assumes that we acquire ___through ___

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morality
virtue
practice.

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We acquire virtue through

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practice

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acquire through practice

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virtue

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virtue ethics helps us understand what it means to be a

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virtuous human being

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helps us understand what it means to be a virtuous human being.

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virtue ethics

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is an approach to ethics that takes the notion of virtue as fundamental.

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virtue ethics

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____ is an approach to ethics that takes the notion of virtue (often conceived
as excellence) as fundamental.

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Virtue ethics

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often conceived as excellence

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virtue

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primarily concerned with traits of
character that are essential to human flourishing, not with the enumeration of duties

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virtue ethics

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Virtue ethics is primarily concerned with ________ that are essential to____, not with the _____

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traits of character
human flourishing
enumeration of duties

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understanding the good as a matter of developing the virtuous character of person

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virtue

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virtue is concerned understanding the good as a matter of developing the ____of person

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virtuous character

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as a matter of developing the virtuous character of person

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good

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Focused on the formation of one’s character brought about by determining and doing virtuous acts.

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virtue

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The two major thinkers of Ancient Greece, who had discourses concerning virtue.

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Plato and Aristotle

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Aristotle book entitled is the

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Nicomachean Ethics

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first comprehensive and programmatic study of virtue of Ethics

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Nicomachean Ethics

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discourse of ethics departs from the Platonic understanding of reality
and conception of the good.

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Aristotle

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both affirm rationality as the highest faculty of a person

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Plato and Aristotle

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Plato and Aristotle affirm ___as the
highest faculty of a person

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rationality

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as the highest faculty of a person

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rationality

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real is outside the realm of any human sensory experience, but
somehow grasped by one’s intellect.

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Plato

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For Plato the real is outside the realm of any human sensory experience, but
somehow grasped by one’s

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intellect

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real is found within our everyday encounter with objects in the world. What makes nature intelligible is its character of having both form of matter.

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Aristotle

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For Aristotle REAL is found within our everyday encounter with

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objects in the world

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cannot exist apart from the object and are not independent of our experience.

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truth and good

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engaging the good in our day to day
living.

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ethical theory of Aristotle

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who wrote the Ethical Theory

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Aristotle

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purpose/goal

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telos

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every matter looks for its form

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Aristotle’s metaphysics

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He was concerned with understanding the principle of change from potentiality to actuality through reason (logos)

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Aristotle’s metaphysics

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Aristotle’s metaphysics was concerned with understanding the principle of change from ___ to ____ through ____

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potentiality
actuality
reason (logos)

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“every act that a person does is directed toward a particular purpose, aim on what the Greeks called TELOS.

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Aristotle

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Aristotle – “every act that a person does is directed toward a particular
purpose, aim on what the Greeks called

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TELOS

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why one does something.

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purpose

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Every pursuit of a person hopes to achieve a

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good

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aiming for a good that is to provide a better future for her
family.

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chosen career

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For Aristotle___ is considered to be the telos or purpose for which all acts
seek to achieve.

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Good

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For __Good is considered to be the telos or purpose for which all acts
seek to achieve.

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Aristotle

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___ is aware that one does an act not only to achieve a particular purpose
, but believes purpose can be utilized for a higher goal activity.

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Aristotle

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Aristotle is aware that one does an act not only to achieve a particular purpose
, but believes purpose can be utilized for a ___

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higher goal activity

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It is important to __ that one becomes clear of the hierarchy of goals that
the different acts produce in order for a person to distinguish which actions are
higher than other.

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Aristotle

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there is an unchanging order (principle) to the changing physical world

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Aristotle’s natural law

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The key idea in Aristotle’s Natural Law is there is an unchanging order (principle) to the changing physical world

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Telos (end/purpose)

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Found when things fulfill their purpose

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Supreme Good

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Aristotle’s Theory of Causes distinguished between

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efficient and final cause.

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distinguished between efficient and final cause.

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Aristotle’s Theory of Causes

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FIRST THE HIGHEST GOOD OF A PERSON MUST BE

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FINAL

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it is no longer utilized for the sake of arriving at a much
higher end.

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final end

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SECOND THE ULTIMATE TELOS OF A PERSON MUST BE

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SELF SUFFICIENT

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arrived at once this higherst good is attained.

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Satisfaction

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e best possible good in
life.

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self-sufficient goal

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HIGHEST GOAL FOR ARISTOTLE

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EUDAIMONIA means
happiness (Greeks)

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What goal is both final and self sufficient?

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EUDAIMONIA, happiness

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highest purpose and the ultimate
good of a man is

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EUDAIMONIA, happiness

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(3) not chosen for themselves but for the
sake of being a means to achieve happiness.

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Wealth, Power, and Pleasures

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only self-sufficient aim that one can
aspire for.

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happiness

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Happiness is not for (2)

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richness or fame

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For Aristotle what defines human beings is her ____

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function or activity of
reason.

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For ___ what defines human beings is her function or activity of
reason.

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Aristotle

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Achieving the highest purpose of a human person concerns the ability to function according to reason and to perform an activity well of excellency.

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virtue

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WHAT EXACTLY MAKES A HUMAN BEING

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Excellent

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must be directed by her rational activity in an excellent way.

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person’s soul

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person’s soul is directed by

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rational activity

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For Aristotle the human soul is divided into two parts

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Irrational element
Rational Faculty

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  • this part of the man is not realm, where virtue is exercised
    because as the term suggests, it cannot be dictated by reason.
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Irrational element

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function as giving nutrition and providing
activity of physical growth in person.

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VEGETATIVE ASPECTS

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works as a desiring faculty of man, that
naturally runs counter to a reason and most of the soul. Sexual Impulse for
example is strong in person that one tends to ignore reasonable

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APPETETIVE ASPECTS

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Irrational element (2)

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Vegetative Aspect
Appetitive Aspect

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man exercise excellence in him. One can rightly or wrongly apply the use of reason in this part.

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Rational Faculty

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Where a person can attain excellence in the intellectual faculty

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Rational Faculty

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Rational Faculty is attains through

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teaching

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Rational Faculty is divided into two

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Moral
Intellectual

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which concerns the act of doing

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Moral

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which concerns the act of knowing

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Intellectual

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Two ways by which one can attain intellectual excellence:

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PHILOSOPHIC
PRACTICAL

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deals with attaining knowledge about the
fundamental principles and truths that govern the universe (ex. General
theory on the origin of things) Understand meaning of life

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PHILOSOPHIC WISDOM-

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Excellence in knowing the right conduct in
carrying out a particular act. In other words one can attain a wisdom that
can provide us with a guide on how to behave in our daily lives.

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PRACTICAL WISDOM-

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The condition of being excellent can be attained by a person through the ____ of the soul;

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intellectual aspect

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For _____ moral goodness is already within the realm of intellectual
excellence.

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SOCRATES

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having intellectual excellence does not necessarily mean that one already has the capacity of doing the good.

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Aristotle

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tells us that she is capable of achieving two
kinds of virtues: moral and intellectual.

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rational faculty

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rational faculty of a person tells us that she is capable of achieving two
kinds of virtues:

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moral and intellectual

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A morally virtuous man for___ is someone who habitually determines the good
and does the right actions. Moral virtue is acquired through habit.

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Aristotle

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chooses the good and consistently does
good deeds.

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moral person

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the meaning of the center is a major element in the definition of
human virtues in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics.

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MESOTES

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MESOTES ,the meaning of the center is a major element in the definition of
human virtues in Aristotle’s _____

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Nicomachean Ethics

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the principle of mesotes often is described as

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powerful

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Developing a practical wisdom involves learning from

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experiences

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is not inherent to a person.

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Knowledge

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may initially make mistakes on how reason
is applied to a particular moral choice or action

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practical wisdom

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Based on ___, a morally virtuous person is concerned with achieving her
appropriate action in a manner tt is neither excessive nor deficient

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Aristotle

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Based on Aristotle, a _____ person is concerned with achieving her
appropriate action in a manner tt is neither excessive nor deficient

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morally virtuous

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middle or the intermediary point in between extremes.

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virtue

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A morally virtuous person targets the

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mesotes

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determines whether the act applied is not excessive or deficient.

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MESOTES

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Moral Virtue
1
2
3

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1- condition
2- action done
3- rational faculty

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is not relative to the person but to the situation and the
circumstance that one is in.

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Aristotle middle

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serves as a guide for the proper identification of the middle
is practical wisdom.

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rational faculty

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the action done that normally
manifests feelings and passions is chosen because it is the middle.

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moral virtue

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arrived at by a person who has a
character identified out of her habitual exercise of particular action.

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condition

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learns from her experiences and therefore
develops that capacity to know the proper way of carrying out her feelings, passions
and develops the capacity to know the proper, specifically practical wisdom aid in
making a virtuous person develop this habit of doing the good

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virtuous person l

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s a deficiency in terms of feelings and
passions.

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Cowardice

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