Virtues Flashcards
Virtues
commendable trait or disposition in a person/people/group
Vices
alternate extremes of virtues
Intellectual Humility
an individual’s recognition of the limits of their knowledge and abilities
Intellectual Empathy
our ability to recognize and appreciate the lived experiences of the
people we interact with
Intellectual Courage
engaging in reasoning or argumentation when doing so
appears to carry the risk of pain or harm
Pragma-Dialectical Theory: C-O-A-C
disagreement can be resolved through argumentation: Confrontation, Opening, Argumentation, Closing (Protagonists and Antagonists)
Limits to Maximizing Expected Value
when you devalue risk for its own sake; when you cannot afford the worst outcome; when rules, laws make maximizing inappropriate
Ethics
the systematic study of questions like that – questions of right and wrong
Consequences Are What Matters
our actions have an impact on other people and those impacts matter… do the ends justify the means?
Rules Based In Respect Are What Matter
People deserve respect… you must not lie, cheat, steal, kill, etc… what if I can do a lot of good things by breaking rules?
Character Is What Matters
What kind of person do you want to be? Like your role models?
Good Ethical Premises
grounded in one of the three key approaches to ethics
Weak Ethical Premises
mere personal opinion, mere organizational gain, explicit religious reasons
Open mindedness
A willingness to be rationally persuaded or to think outside the box
Three key approaches to ethics
Outcomes, rules, character
