Transcript Virtue lesson 1

“We are what we repeatedly do”
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
1 a : conformity to a standard of right : MORALITY b : a particular moral excellence
1. Are we what we repeatedly do?
2. Is excellence a habit or an act?
3. Do we become brave by doing brave acts?
4. Is there more to morality than appearing to do what is good or right?
5. What virtues are dominant in a predominantly secular society?
6. Can practising virtues make you a better person?
7. Do character traits change as people develop?
8. Do we risk losing our proficiency in these areas if we stop practising?
9. Do we need a more character free way of assessing our conduct?
10. Can virtues be taught?
11. Who is virtuous? How do we tell? Are there any indications?
12. Are these indications a real guarantee that the person’s inner being is
virtuous?
Vice of deficiency
Virtuous mean
Vice of excess
Cowardice
Courage
Rashness
Insensibility
Temperance
Intemperance
Illiberality
Liberality
Prodigality
Pettiness
Munificence
Vulgarity
Humble mindedness
High mindedness
Vaingloriousness
Want of ambition
Right ambition
Overambition
Spiritlessness
Good temper
Irascibility
Surliness
Friendly civility
Obsequiousness
Ironical depreciation
Sincerity
Boastfulness
Boorishness
Wittiness
Buffoonery
Callousness
Just resentment
Spitefulness
Shamelessness
Modesty
Bashfulness
Happiness = contemplation(Philosophers)
Supreme happiness for the community not
just the individual
Person centred