VIRTUE ETHICS

Question 1

type of ethics that concentrates on the character of the actor

Answer 1

virtue ethics

Question 2

concerned with the consequences of an action

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consequentialism

Question 3

concerned with duties or rules that govern one’s acts

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deontological ethics

Question 4

at what age did aristotle go to athens

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17

Question 5

what age was alexander the great when he was tutored by aristotle

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13

Question 6

son of aristotle

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nicomachus

Question 7

the ultimate end

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eudaimon

Question 8

means flourishing life or happiness as the ultimate goal

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eudaimonia

Question 9

_____________________ is an end in itself never as a means to something

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happiness

Question 10

It is the active exercise of our
faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite

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concept of virtue

Question 11

kinds of virtue according to aristotle

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intellectual virtue
moral virtue

Question 12

acquired from teaching, and learning, it enables us to think rationally, requires experience and time

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intellectual virtue

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formed by habit, enables us to handle our desires and emotions rationally

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moral virtues

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give by nature, we receive the power of using them first then we exercise these in action

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endowments

Question 15

we practice them before we acquire them

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virtues

Question 16

it is a state of character, internally located

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virtue

Question 17

doing the right thing to the right person at the right time

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moral action

Question 18

can be acquired through time by continuous performance of moral action

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character

Question 19

in aristotlean virtue ethics, virtue must be practiced __________

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repeatedly

Question 20

a person who acts in ways to help alleviate the suffering of others with positive feeling of joy

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compassionate person

Question 21

a person who does the right act with a feeling of pleasure and contentment

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virtuous person

Question 22

known as a religious tradition and recognized by scholars as a philosophical system for it provides views pertaining to morality

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confucianism

Question 23

focus of confucian virtue ethics

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cultivation of character traits to achieve moral excellence