PDF-(EBOOK)-Becoming a Good Doctor: The Place of Virtue and Character in Medical Ethics

Becoming a Good Doctor focuses on medical ethics in basic sense the character traits and styles of practice we look for when we seek a doctors help This book will appeal to doctors and medical students for its sound application of the venerable tradition of virtue ethics to modern medical practice. 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 . Hurt Locker. and . Zero Dark Thirty. :. Virtue Ethics and the War on Terror. Zero Dark Thirty. : The Controversy. ZDT was criticized by many for seeming to portray “enhanced interrogation” as crucial to the killing of Bin Laden. 1 (e.g. pleasure or knowledge) good or bad-normative ethics of behavior studies what makesactions (e.g. murder/charity) right or wrong-virtue ethics studies what makes the character traits of people ( 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. 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 . Virtue vs. Impurity. “The moral excellence evident in my life as I consistently do what is right.”. Showing integrity by making good choices in every situation. . Virtues" are attitudes, dispositions, or character traits that enable us to be and to act in ways that develop this potential. They enable us to pursue the ideals we have adopted. Honesty, courage, compassion, generosity, fidelity, integrity, fairness, self-control, and prudence are all examples of virtues.. Tom Harrison. Jubilee Centre. Virtues, Religion and Character Education: . Virtues, Religion and Character Education: How church schools contribute to human flourishing . @. CofE_EduLead. Virtues, 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. College of Business Administration. UPRM. Preliminary, Meta-ethical Considerations. What environmental ethics is not. It is not an accounting of all laws, statutes, regulations relating to the environment.. 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 . Becoming a Good Doctor focuses on medical ethics in basic sense: the character traits and styles of practice we look for when we seek a doctor\'s help. This book will appeal to doctors and medical students for its sound application of the venerable tradition of virtue ethics to modern medical practice.