Virtue Ethics

Question 1

Virtue-based systems

Answer 1

aretaic ethics (arete meaning excellence or virtue)
eudaimonistic ethics

Question 2

ethics which emphasizes doing

Answer 2

action-governed ethics

Question 3

Seek to produce excellent persons who act well out of spontaneous goodness and serve as examples to inspire others

Ethical framework that is concerned with understanding the good as a matter of developing the virtuous character of a person

Example: Moses, Confucius, Socrates, Jesus, Buddha, St. Francis, Abraham Lincoln, Father Damien, John Stuart Mill, Albert Schweitzer, Mohandas Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Mother Theresa

Answer 3

Virtue ethics

Question 4

Student of Plato
Emphasized that reason is the highest faculty of a person
Founded Lyceum school n

Answer 4

Aristotle

Question 5

Real as amtter and form

Good does not exist independent of the person’s experience in the world

Uses concept of Telos (end) the ultimate purpose of a person

Answer 5

Nicomachean Ethics

Question 6

Criteria for ultimate telos (3)

Answer 6

1 Final
2 Self-sufficient
3 Attainable

*only eudaimonia (happiness) meets it

Question 7

Act of knowing

Seen in wisdom

Acquired through teaching and learning

Answer 7

Intellectual Virtue

Question 8

The excellence of knowing what to do.

Answer 8

Phronesis (Practical Wisdom)

Question 9

Acquired through habit

Formation of one’s character habitually

Answer 9

Moral Virtue