1.  Team Members:  Samantha Nirschl  Dave Opperman  Ryan Tess-Wanat  Adam Bokelman

2.  Moral Goodness  Attitudes or Character traits  Thoughtful reflection on what kind of person we have the potential to become  Virtues are like habits, once acquired become characteristics

3.  Honesty  Compassion  Generosity  Integrity  Self-control  Trustworthiness

4.  Aristotle –(384 BC – 322 BC)  Philippa Foot –(1920-present)

5. I. Was a Greek Philosopher II. Student Of Plato III. Father of Virtue Ethics IV. First to really stress the importance of having virtues

6.  Identified that virtue is related to the proper function of a thing.  In order for us to function properly we need a virtuous happy self character  Once a virtuous person  Later develop wisdom

7.  British Philosopher  Founder of modern virtue ethics  Wrote a collection of papers called “virtues and vices” (1978)  Was responsible for influencing Oxford philosophers

8.  Modernized Aristotle's ethical theories and showed it was adaptable to a new contemporary view  Wrote “Natural Goodness” in 2001  Denys a fact/value distinction and found room for a sophisticated kind of ethical naturalism.  Ethical Naturalism is a version of an Aristotelian ethic in which the nature of human beings is itself a determinant of their good.

9.  Different cultures will have different virtues.  Ex: Greeks have more pride where as Christian monks have more humility

10.  Some critics say it goes beyond moral views and focuses more on our actions.  Not what should I do, but what kind of person should I be?

11.  Ex: Running a marathon takes training and practice, so does our virtues.

12.  You are driving to work and see a person collapse on the sidewalk  What do you do?  Stop and help  Drive by ignoring the person

13.  You stopped and helped, being a Good Samaritan  Consequences for stopping  You are late for work and are disciplined with 3 days off without pay

14.  You drive by  Consequences for not stopping?  Later you find out the person died  If you would have stopped you may have saved that persons life!

15.  You find out that the collapsed person was the spouse of the person that works next to you!  What do you tell that person?

17. 1. What (kind of thing) is a virtue? 2. Who founded the theory of virtue ethics? 3. How do Virtues differ from Morals?