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Virtue Ethics
The Ethics of Ethos
Ethical
Theories
Teleological
Virtue
Deontological
Ends
Ethos
Rules
Consequences
Habits
Absolutes
Calculation
Living
Simplicity
Action
Disposition
Action
What Is Virtue?
• What exactly can we define as virtue?
• In this next exercise you will need to
pick 5 of the possible characteristics of
a virtuous person
Pick 5
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Friendship
Justice
Courage
Temperance
Loyalty
Fortitude Perseverance
Social Status
Honesty
Generosity
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Humour
Ambition
Wealth
Humility
Faithfulness
Hope
Agape
Anger
Obedience
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Kanye West
(old
grumpy) Hercules
(young friendly)
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Jesus and Wayne Rooney
Good Quotes On Virtue
Rudolph Giulliani
• “I think the most fundamental
change occurred when I dealt
with the prostate cancer (age
55). That was the first time
that required me to say, “ I
am going to die. Not
necessarily of cancer, but I
am gonna die.” So you realize
you’d better do something
with your life that makes you
happy with yourself. I decided
that politics was not my whole
life.”
Aristotle
• Some people believe that
nature makes people good,
others believe that it is habit,
and still others say that it is
teaching. Experience shows
that logical arguments and
teaching are not effective in
most cases. The soul of the
students must have been
conditioned by good habits
just as land must be cultivated
to nurture seed. For a person
whose life is guided by
emotion will not listen to a
rational argument, nor will he
understand it.
• Weren’t those famous gurus the very people the
world called successful? How on Earth was I to find
happiness if I ended up being a nobody… and the
impoverished one at that? Ergo, I concluded that
Aristotle must be wrong. And everything I read in
magazines and watched on the television argued
against Aristotle’s conclusions. According to
conventional wisdom, happiness is found, variously,
by way of:
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A new job
A new house
A new city
A new mate
An adventure in faraway climes
Virtue
• Strength of
Character (Habit)
• Involving both
Feeling and Action
• Seeks the mean
between excess
and deficiency
relative to us
• Promotes human
flourishing
How To Achieve Eudaimonia
Aristotle defined Good as something that
fulfils its ends purpose
The Telos of humanity is to be rational
The Ergon of reason in practice is virtue
“The good for human beings is an activity of the
soul in accordance with arete”
Person Centred
• The “ethics of dilemma” approach to morality
forgets an essential part of ethics – THE
PERSON’S CHARACTER and how personal
moral growth is encouraged
We are not concerned to
know what goodness is but
how to become good
people, since otherwise our
enquiry would be useless.
Aristotle
The ethical condition is not
the condition of having a
certain right theory; rather
the ethical condition is
having a certain character.
Alasdair Macintyre
The Golden Mean
Cowardice
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Deficiency
Recklessness
Excess
Mean
One must find the right balance between Cowardice and
Recklessness… Courage
Virtues and Spheres of Existence
Sphere of
Existence
Deficiency Mean
Servility, Self
Attitude
Towards-Self Depreciation
Attitude
Towards
Others
Attitude
Towards Our
Offences
Excess
Pride
Self- Respect
Arrogance
Egoism
Vanity
Ignoring Them
Being a
Doormat
Anger
Forgiveness
Understanding
Revenge
Grudge
Resentment
Indifference
Downplaying
Anger Regret
Toxic Guilt
Making Amends Shame
Self- Forgiveness Scrupulosity
Phronesis
Aristotle's Concept Of Life And Death
Education
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Phronesis
Born
Old
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Parenting
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Sophia