PPT-Aristotle on eudaimonia, and function and virtue

Michael Lacewing enquiriesalevelphilosophycouk c Michael Lacewing The good What is the good for human beings What is it that we are aiming at What would provide a successful fulfilling good life. Aristotle and Our Contemporaries. Introduction. Concern for character has flourished in the West since the time of Plato, whose early dialogues explored such virtues as courage and piety. Two Moral Questions . Starter – Disentanglement – identify the parts that are or might be . Aristotilean. .. Reading – Puzzle of Ethics p34-35. Higher Reading – . MacIntyre. p94. Bring this next lesson . LO s . To recap knowledge about the life and works of Aristotle. ETHICS BOWL. STARTER QUESTION. Think of someone who you think of as . a good person. .. It could be a family member, friend, someone famous – anyone!. Q: What . makes. this person good?. List the . How are sports and virtues related?. Is it safe to say that once you exude negative behaviors, you can never be a virtuous person?. Are those athletes seen as faking a foul or “flopping” seen as virtuous people?. Starter – reminder of the doctrine of the mean, vice, virtues and deficiencies. Ext – A few examples. HWK – Michael . Slote. article. LO s . To deepen understanding of the traditional formulation of virtue ethics including . The Mind of the School. From The Nichomachean Ethics . “It is no easy task to be good…. any one can get angry- that is easy- or give or spend money; but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way..is not easy”. Aristotle’s Function Argument. To be good is to function well.. The function of something is whatever distinguishes it from other things. . Humans are distinguished from other things by our ability to act rationally.. Week Five: Aristotle. Aristotle. Quick Recap of Kant. Motive of duty and the Categorical Imperative. Axe-wielding maniac. Optimistic about human capacity. ‘Inhuman’/’cold’. Aristotle. Mill and Kant – Action based ethics. Aristotle Pt. 1. Nichomachean. Ethics. Aristotle (384-321 B.C.E.). Unlike Socrates and Plato, Aristotle was not an Athenian.. He was born in Thrace (what is now . n. orthern Greece).. His father served as the court physician of . enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. © Michael Lacewing. Eudaimonia and morality. ‘What is the good for human beings?’ . What is it that we are aiming at?. What would provide a successful, fulfilling, good life?. Student at Plato’s Academy. Tutor to Alexander the Great. Founded his own school later, the Lyceum. Agrees with Plato in some areas; also sharp disagreements. Interested in all areas of inquiry. Pioneered logic as a formal area of study. “The end for which everything is done but which is not itself done for the sake of anything [. summum bonum]. ” (Long). . The . telos. [goal/end] in which Stoic ethics finds its purpose. “Living in agreement [with nature],” “Good flow of life” (Zeno). Good life Final end Rational. . Function Flourishing . . Eudaimonia. Virtues Doctrine of the mean Vices . 1. What are the vices for each of the following virtues? . Recap – The Virtues. STARTER QUESTION. Think of someone who you think of as . a good person. .. It could be a family member, friend, someone famous – anyone!. Q: What . makes. this person good?. List the . qualities or character traits .