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Chapter 5. VIRTUE ETHICS

This document discusses virtue ethics and the harmful effects of television violence on children. It summarizes an article about government officials in the Philippines expressing concern about children being exposed to too much violence on TV. The Department of Education implemented guidelines from the Children's Television Act to regulate programming and promote more child-friendly shows. Studies show that viewing TV violence at a young age can negatively influence children by making them insensitive to consequences of violence and more likely to imitate violent acts. The document then provides an overview of virtue ethics based on the work of Aristotle, focusing on developing good character through virtuous actions.

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Chapter 5. VIRTUE ETHICS

This document discusses virtue ethics and the harmful effects of television violence on children. It summarizes an article about government officials in the Philippines expressing concern about children being exposed to too much violence on TV. The Department of Education implemented guidelines from the Children's Television Act to regulate programming and promote more child-friendly shows. Studies show that viewing TV violence at a young age can negatively influence children by making them insensitive to consequences of violence and more likely to imitate violent acts. The document then provides an overview of virtue ethics based on the work of Aristotle, focusing on developing good character through virtuous actions.

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CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 5
VIRTUE ETHICS
VIRTUE ETHICS
Chapter Objectives:
1. Discuss the meaning and basic
Principles of virtue ethics;

2. Distinguish virtues acts from non-


Virtues acts; and

3. Apply Aristotle’s ethics in


understanding the
Filipino character.
INRODUCTION
An online news account
narrates key officials from both
legislative and executive
branches of the government
voicing out their concerns on
the possible ill effects of too
much violence seen by children
on television.
This prompted then-
Department of Education
Secretary Bro. Armin Luistro to
launch the implementing
guidelines of Children’s Television
Act of 1997 in order to regulate
television shows and promote
more child-friendly programs.
Ultimately, for Bro.
Luistro, to regulate
television programs
would help in the
development of
children’s values.
According to the news article;
• Department of Education held a series of
consultation with various stakeholders to the
issue of exposure of children to TV violence.
• Implemented the rules and guidelines for
viewing safety and created a television
violence rating code to be applied in all TV
programs.
• Lastly, they also set 15% of television airtime
for shows conductive to children.
Children at a young age have not yet
achieved full personal growth and
mental development. When they see
violence on television on a regular basis,
they may consider such violent act as
“normal”.
Much worse is that they might tend to
believe that such acts, since committed
by adults are permissible.
• The American Academy of Child and
Adolescent psychiatry, for instance,
enumerated the harmful effects of
television violence such as being
insensitive to the possible ill
consequences brought about by watching
violent shows.
• The study also suggest that, children
exposed to television violence begin to
“imitate what they observe” and consider
violence as “a way to solve problems”.
Virtue Ethics
• Is the ethical framework that concerned
with understanding the good as a matter of
developing the virtuous character of a
person.
• Focuses on the formation of one’s
character brought about by determining
and doing virtuous acts.
• ARISTOTLE (384-322 BCE)

-was born in Macedoria and studied


philosophy under Plato in Athens. He
was also considered to be the brightest
among Plato’s students in the learner’s
school.
The two major thinkers of Ancient
Greece, Plato and Aristotle, had
discourses concerning virtue. But
Aristotle book entitled Nicomachean
Ethics is the first comprehensive and
programmatic study of virtue ethics.
• Aristotle discourse of ethics departs
from the Platonic understanding of
reality and conception of the good.

• Both Plato and Aristotle affirm rationally


as the highest faculty of a person and
having such characteristics enables a
person to realize the very purpose of
her existence.
• For Plato, the real is outside the realm
of any human security experience but
can somehow be grasped by one’s
intellect.

• For Aristotle, the real is found within


our everyday encounter with objects in
the world.
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