PPT-Aristotle – Virtue Ethics

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 . 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?. Themes in Ethics and Epistemology. Shane Ryan. s.g.ryan@sms.ed.ac.uk. 09/10/13. Topic. What is virtue ethics?. Structure. 1. The Motivation for Virtue Ethics. 2. Virtue Ethics: historical background. 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 . Lakeside institute of Theology. Christian Ethics . (CL3). Ethics, Morality and Religion. Christian Ethics. (CL3) . Oct. 1 – Intro to Ethics; Christian Ethics. Oct. 8 – Ethics, Morality and Religion. 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. 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. moral agent. , rather than the . moral . act. . – CHARACTER BASED ETHICS. Deontological and teleological ethicists think that right . behaviour. comes before right character. Virtue theory puts this the other way round – right character comes before right . 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 .