Virtue Ethics Flashcards
What is VE concerned with?
Virtue ethics is concerned with the individual and not the outcome.
What did Aristotle believe a virtue was?
Something that must be practised in order for you to become morally virtuous.
What did Aristotle say you had to do to become morally good?
To practise virtues eg. Crossing an old lady across the street encourages virtues of kindness and helpfulness.
What is a virtue?
A characteristic that is concerned with the character development of a person, rather than rules of how they should act and behave and the consequences of this.
What where the 3 types of happiness that Aritotle suggested?
Pleasure- seeking basic desires.
Honour- working with of for your community.
Contemplation- knowledge and understanding.
What where the 4 types of virtuous people?
1⃣Virtuous- highest of virtuous people
2⃣Content
3⃣In Content
4⃣Vicious- lowest of virtue
Numbers 2⃣3⃣4⃣ all need to practise there virtues as they are still tempted by vices.
What where the 2 types of virtue that Aristotle explained?
Intellectual and moral:
Moral- is a state that promotes good behaviour and attitudes and leads to virtues such as helpfulness and kindness.
Intellectual- this is a state of again good behaviour and attitudes but also a state in which you experience virtues such as wisdom and scientific skills.
Aristotle believed that within intellectual virtue there was two types?
Secondary virtue, EG. Prudence
Primary virtue, EG. Resourcefulness
What are the 4 Cardinal virtues?
Temperance- self control
Justice- ability to treat everyone equally
Courage- the ability to maintain a balance between coward ness and recklessness.
Prudence- practical wisdom.
What did Aristotle believe the golden mean helped you achieve? And how was GM discovered?
Helps you to become a virtuous person.
Was discovered by intellect.
What was the golden mean?
Aristotle be.eived that the golden mean was the middle of being too little or too much of a virtue.
EG, the golden mean of coward ness and recklessness is courage and the golden mean of excess and absence is temperance.
What did Aristotle believe that humans are NOT born with?
VIRTUES, he believed that our virtues are learnt through our role models and become a automatic part of their character, in the end people will be virtuous due to it being an automatic motivation to do so.
What did Aristotle believe that we had to follow in order for us to reach eudaemonia?
The GOLDEN MEAN
What is eudaemonia?
Aristotle believed that eudaemonia is a state of tootle human flourishment and an ideal of total human satisfaction, he believed that by achieving eudaemonia you are able to reach honour, pleasure and practical wisdom.
What did Aristotle believe the purpose of eudaemonia was?
He believed that all humans has a end/purpose (telos) and eudaemonia is it!
