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How Is Moral Character Developed?

This document discusses how moral character is developed. It can be explained by approaches like virtues, dispositions, the circular relationship between acts and character, and theoretical perspectives. Moral character refers to virtues like integrity, courage, and honesty. Aristotle viewed virtue ethics as actions based on inner moral virtues, with two types of human excellence: of thought and of character. Virtue ethics focuses on a person's moral character rather than what they ought to do.

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How Is Moral Character Developed?

This document discusses how moral character is developed. It can be explained by approaches like virtues, dispositions, the circular relationship between acts and character, and theoretical perspectives. Moral character refers to virtues like integrity, courage, and honesty. Aristotle viewed virtue ethics as actions based on inner moral virtues, with two types of human excellence: of thought and of character. Virtue ethics focuses on a person's moral character rather than what they ought to do.

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MODULE 8

HOW IS MORAL
CHARACTER
DEVELOPED?
MORAL CHARACTER AND ITS DEVELOPMENT
• MORAL CHARACTER refers to the existence or lack of
virtues such as integrity, courage, fortitude, honesty, and
loyalty.

• Development of moral character can be explained by the


following approaches: virtues, disposition, circular relations
of acts and character, and theoretical perspectives (De Guzman et al.,
2017 and philnotes.com)
MORAL CHARACTER AND VIRTUES

• Etymologically, the term “character” comes from the ancient


Greek term charaktêr, which initially referred to the mark
impressed upon a coin. The term charaktêr late came to refer
more generally to any distinctive feature y which one thing is
distinguished from others

• Aristotle most often used the term ethe for character, which is
etymologically linked to “ethics” and “morality”
VIRTUE ETHICS
• VIRTUE ETHICS represents the concept that individual’s actions are based upon inner
moral virtue where Aristotle was the leading figure of it.

VIRTUE is a central concept in his Nicomachean Ethics wherein there are two distinct
of human excellences;
1. excellences of thoughts
2. excellences of character
• In virtue ethics, one does not ask the question, “what morally ought we to do?”; rather
virtue ethics posits that the basic function of morality is the moral character of persons.
(Beauchamp,2001)

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