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Intellectual Virtue - Moral Virtue

The document discusses Aristotle's views on intellectual and moral virtue. According to Aristotle, intellectual virtues include scientific knowledge, artistic/technological knowledge, intuitive reason, practical wisdom, and philosophical wisdom. Moral virtue is a disposition to act in the right way, which is a mean between deficiency and excess. We acquire moral virtue through habit and experience rather than reasoning. Aristotle also believed that technology is a method to accomplish human ends efficiently and is separate from scientific knowledge. He viewed the good life as one where a person cultivates their rational faculties through activities like scientific study, philosophy, art, or legislation.

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Intellectual Virtue - Moral Virtue

The document discusses Aristotle's views on intellectual and moral virtue. According to Aristotle, intellectual virtues include scientific knowledge, artistic/technological knowledge, intuitive reason, practical wisdom, and philosophical wisdom. Moral virtue is a disposition to act in the right way, which is a mean between deficiency and excess. We acquire moral virtue through habit and experience rather than reasoning. Aristotle also believed that technology is a method to accomplish human ends efficiently and is separate from scientific knowledge. He viewed the good life as one where a person cultivates their rational faculties through activities like scientific study, philosophy, art, or legislation.

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the absence of virtue, while the philosophers followed Aristotle in locating virtue as a mean

between two opposing "vices," one reflecting an abundance, and the other a lack of the virtuous
quality in question.

1. Intellectual Virtue - Moral Virtue

According to Aristotle, intellectual virtues include: scientific knowledge (episteme), artistic or


technological knowledge (techne), intuitive reason (nous), practical wisdom (phronesis), and
philosophical wisdom (sophia). Intuitive reason is a method that lays forth the first rules of
knowledge. Aristotle describes moral virtue as a disposition to act in the right way/manner and as
a means between the extremes of deficiency and excess, which are vices. We acquire moral
virtue mainly through habit and experience, not through reasoning and instruction.

2. Science and Technology - The Good Life

Techno-epistemology: according to Aristotle, technology is an arrangement of methods to make


it possible and to serve the accomplishment of human ends. Technology knowledge then is
separate from both regular and scientific knowledge. It is efficient intelligence, the consequence
of the desire to do according to reason. Good life is one in which a person cultivates and
exercises his or her rational faculties by for example, participating in scientific study,
philosophic debate, artistic creation or legislation.

Exercise 2. Documentary Analysis


Instructions: Watch the documentary film, That Sugar Film (2014), directed by Damon Garnenu.
After watching the film, discuss your ideas on how the overproduction and overconsumption of
sugar based products potentially prevent humans from achieving eudaimonia. Is there indeed a
need for industries to regulate the production of sugar based products and for consumers to
reduce their consumption if they areto journey toward the good life together? Write your
reflection on a letter size bond paper.

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