Virtue Ethics Flaschards From Specifaction Sheets Flashcards
What is the supreme good and its criteria?
There is one end that we all aim for and by ranking goals we eventually arrive at a goal that is the highest: the supreme Good.
Aristotle outline the criteria for the supreme Good as:
It must be an end
It must be the final end
It must be self-sufficient
I must be a life that we all want
It must be something that is related to us as human beings.
Define virtue ethics and virtue
Virtue ethics focuses on the individual person, rather than an individual course of action unlike other normative theories who agree the action carries the moral weight - Virtue theory in this sense is agent centred.
A virtue is a disposition possessed by good people. So for example, we say someone is kind (has a kind disposition) when they tend to be kind to others. A disposition is not a one-off act.
