MODULE 5 Flashcards
aristotle’s
nichomachean ethics
INSTRUMENTAL GOOD
- desire
- pleasure
INTRINSIC GOOD
- something worthwhile
- “why” something is asked until nonsense answer is reached
- leads to ultimate good
- good spirit
- happiness –> ultimate good
- welfare
- human flourishing
- prosperity
- happiness = living well, doing well
eudaimonia
- pleasure
- wealth
- fame and honor
hedonism
two hallmarks of eudaimonia
- virtue
- morally good behavior - excellence
- excellent and valuable quality
is eudaimonia unique only to humans?
- plants
- non rational - animals
- partially rational - humans
- rational, theoretical, practical
________ is made possible by living a life of virtue (_____)
- Eudaimonia
- arête
excellence and moral virtue
arete
A ____ is what makes one function well
virtue
intellectual virtual
education
time
experience
practice
guides ethical behavior
wisdom
scientific endeavor and contemplation
understanding
KEY INTELLECTUAL VIRTUES
- Achieved through formal and non-formal means
- Self-taught knowledge and skills
- wisdom
- understanding
- virtue of character
- habitual practice
moral virtue
KEY MORAL VIRTUES
- Generosity: repeatedly unselfish
- Temperance-repeatedly resisting and foregoing every inviting opportunity
- Courage-repeatedly exhibiting the proper action and emotional response in the time of danger
Moral and intellectual virtue are _____ but NOT everyone can acquire, can only be acquired when repeatedly done and practiced
- innate
what is good life?
- state of being happy, healthy, and prosperous
- path to good life consist of virtues of thoughts and character
- mediator between the two extremes of excess and deficiency
ultimate good and living a virtuous life
happiness
7 dangers to human virtue
- wealth
- pleasure
- knowledge
- commerce
- science
- worship
- politics
without work
wealth
without conscience
pleasure
without character
knowledge
without morality
commerce
without humanity
science
without sacrifice
worship
without principle
politics
