PPT-Virtue and eudaimonia Michael Lacewing

enquiriesalevelphilosophycouk 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. 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 . 1. EU-SILC coverage. (2013 ad-hoc module; life sat*, affect and eudaimonia* – freq. . tbc. .). European. countries with additional collections. Other OECD. countries with SWB measurement initiatives. , . Eudaimonia. , and . Well-Being. : An Introduction . Deci. . & Ryan . 2008. HEDONIA & EUDAIMONIA. Well-being, optimal psychological experience and functioning, can be thought of as falling into two traditions, founded on different views of human nature:. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. (c) Michael Lacewing. Cognitivism. . and moral realism. What are we doing when we. make moral judgments?. Cognitivism: moral judgments, e.g. ‘Murder is wrong’. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. © 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. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. (c) Michael Lacewing. God and time. God is self-. sufficient.. Therefore, God is dependent . on nothing else for . existence.. Therefore, nothing can end God’s existence.. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. © Michael Lacewing. Stealing. Steal: . to take someone else’s property with no intention of returning it and without their permission (or without the legal right to do so. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. © Michael Lacewing. Justice. Justice (the virtue) . is the disposition to act justly and desire . justice (the state of affairs). Justice the virtue is defined in terms of just acts, unlike other virtues. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. (c) Michael Lacewing. Hedonist act utilitarianism. Actions . are morally right or wrong depending on their consequences and nothing else. An act is right if it maximises what is good.. Michael Lacewing. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. © Michael Lacewing. Deontology. Morality is a matter of duty.. Whether something is right or wrong doesn’t depend on its consequences. Actions are right or wrong in themselves.. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. © Michael Lacewing. Metaethics. What is morality, philosophical speaking?. Can ethical claims be objectively true or false?. Are moral properties part of reality?. Cognitivism: moral judgments, e.g. ‘Murder is wrong’. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. © Michael Lacewing. Metaethics. What is morality, philosophical speaking?. Can ethical claims be objectively true or false?. Are moral properties part of reality?. Cognitivism: moral judgments, e.g. ‘Murder is wrong’. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. © Michael Lacewing. Substance and properties. A substance is an entity, a thing, that does not depend on another entity for its continued existence. . It has ‘ontological independence’. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. (c) Michael Lacewing. N. on. -. cognitivism and anti-realism. What are we doing when we. make moral judgments?. Non. -cognitivism: moral judgments. Do not aim to describe the world.