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    Virtue ethics originated with the ancient Greeks and was greatly expanded upon by Aristotle. Aristotle believed that ethics should focus on developing good character and living virtuously rather than rules or obligations. He defined virtue as an excellent character trait that promotes well-being. Intellectual virtues involve reasoning abilities while moral virtues relate to emotions and actions. A virtuous person embodies a balanced mean between deficiencies and excesses of emotions and actions. For Aristotle, the good life involves achieving well-being through the cultivation of virtues and avoidance of vices.

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    Virtue ethics originated with the ancient Greeks and was greatly expanded upon by Aristotle. Aristotle believed that ethics should focus on developing good character and living virtuously rather than rules or obligations. He defined virtue as an excellent character trait that promotes well-being. Intellectual virtues involve reasoning abilities while moral virtues relate to emotions and actions. A virtuous person embodies a balanced mean between deficiencies and excesses of emotions and actions. For Aristotle, the good life involves achieving well-being through the cultivation of virtues and avoidance of vices.

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    Virtue ethics originated with the ancient Greeks and was greatly expanded upon by Aristotle. Aristotle believed that ethics should focus on developing good character and living virtuously rather than rules or obligations. He defined virtue as an excellent character trait that promotes well-being. Intellectual virtues involve reasoning abilities while moral virtues relate to emotions and actions. A virtuous person embodies a balanced mean between deficiencies and excesses of emotions and actions. For Aristotle, the good life involves achieving well-being through the cultivation of virtues and avoidance of vices.

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    VIRTUE ETHICS

    Researched and presented by: Christine Jude T. de Guzman

    Brief History of Virtue Ethics


    Ancient Greeks : Ethics is a component of politics Ethics was not concerned with moral obligation Artistotle -concerned with the question: What sort of people we have to be if we are to live the good life?

    Aristotle
    Born in Stagira, North of Athens Father: Nichomachus: court physician &scholar Fond of luxury and wealth, owned several slaves, and associated with the rich and powerful a scientist, philosopher, logician, poet, psychologist & writer

    He argues that the good life--- the life of virtue--- is the most important activity of the human race. The unique function of humans is reasoning and thus virtue involves living according to reason.

    Good human being

    Fulfills the distinctive function of human being

    ability to reason (ultimate human function)

    Virtues

    Wellbeing (ultimate human good)

    what sort of person must I be? what makes an individual a good or virtuous person? emphasizes right being over right action assessment of moral traits that establish a persons moral character

    VIRTUE
    Gk word: Arte meaning excellences in character Admirable character trait or disposition to habitually act in a manner that benefits ourselves and others A state of character that promotes the well being of the person who has them

    VIRTUES
    INTELLECTUAL VIRTUES
    ART KNOWLEDGE PRACTICAL WISDOM PHILOSOPHIC WISDOM COMPREHENSION

    MORAL VIRTUES
    COURAGE TRUTHFULNESS FRIENDLINESS KINDNESS TEMPERANCE PRUDENCE FORTITUDE Etc.

    VIRTUES
    INTELLECTUAL VIRTUES MORAL VIRTUES Vital to excellence in related to actions and emotions or passions that reasoning, and accompany intellectual excellence in virtues reasoning is central to An excess, a deficit, or an intermediate amount of well-being.
    emotion accompanies action

    Doctrine of the Mean


    Each virtue is a mean between two vices that involve feeling excess and deficit amounts of emotion and acting inappropriately.
    Vice of Deficiency MEAN VIRTUE Vice of Excess

    Cowardice Stinginess Shamelessness Self-depreciation

    Courage Generosity Modesty


    Truthfulness

    Recklessness Extravagance Bashfulness Boastfulness

    An individual who embodies the virtues and does not possess the vices. Person possessing intellectual and moral virtues A person who is living the good life

    This person can be an actual virtuous individual or a nonexistent ideal person. To obtain well-being, one must strive to acquire the virtues, eliminate the vices, and emulate the model or the ideal person.

    Being a good person entails more than mere action First: people must be aware of what they are doing Second: choose the action because it is virtuous choose it as an end in itself Third: the action must be the expression of character and must be by the proper emotion and their accompanied

    The good person has achieved well-being

    Health Longevity Material prosperity Living in a flourishing city Without these things, we would not really be able to live good lives.

    The ethical person does not need to follow general rules or evaluate individual actions When faced with complex moral dilemmas: choose the right course of action because doing the right thing comes from a developed character

    Strengths
    of Virtue Ethics
    An Ethical Theory that is Not Simplistic A Practical Ethical Theory A Theory Consistent with Human Nature A Theory that Goes Beyond Pure Duty and Rightsbased Ethics

    Limitations
    of Virtue Ethics
    The Incompleteness of Virtue Ethics Moral Luck and Partiality The Fundamental Human Function

    Implication, Application & Conclusion


    On a personal note

    Watch it!
    Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. ~ Frank Outlaw

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