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Virtue Ethics Defines ethics in terms of the good person vs. the right act the characteristics of an ideal individual successful living

Virtue Ethics Based on human nature Goal of life = Eudaimonia (success) Mistranslated “happiness” means doing well what you were meant, designed to do. Teleological system (based on purpose, function)

Virtue Ethics Purpose or Function What is a good X? What is it supposed to do? What is its characteristic activity or function? What sets it apart from other things? What characteristics allow it to perform its function well?

Virtue Ethics Purpose in nature (teleology) The purpose or function of The eye: to see The heart: to pump blood A fin: to swim Bacteria: to decompose

Virtue Ethics Plants Animals = plants plus… Humans = animals plus… Nutrition Growth Animals = plants plus… Sensation Locomotion Humans = animals plus… REASON

Virtue Ethics Aristotle defines Man as the rational animal What he does characteristically, uniquely and best is rational activity

Virtue Ethics Goal of life = success, actualizing one’s natural potential Humanity defined by reason Success for humanity therefore defined by intellectual activity

Virtue Ethics The ideal life = scholar, scientist, intellectual This life best actualizes one’s potential as a rational animal

Virtue Ethics Aristotle is a realist Being an intellectual requires certain things Friends to philosophize with Not being hideously deformed Wealth for food, servants, avoiding non-intellectual work (i.e. manual labor) Avoiding serious illness or financial ruin (luck)

Virtue Ethics Do natural things have purposes? Can you discover their purposes by looking at what they do? If human beings have purposes, must they be the same? Is what humans do characteristically or best REASON?

Virtue Ethics Virtue (arete): A Disposition of character which lead to success (eudaimonia) Disposition: a tendency to act a particular way

Virtue Ethics Virtue is a mean between the extremes of excess and deficiency. Virtue is learned through good upbringing and practice as an adult One learns courage through attempting to act courageously No distinction between the good life in the natural and moral senses

Virtue Ethics Virtue means doing something at the right time in the right amount. Example virtues: Courage, Temperance, Honesty, Pride, Generosity Christianity Added Faith, Love, less emphasis on reason Replaced Pride with Humility, Servitude Made Poverty a virtue

Virtue Ethics Advantages Ethics empirically justified No egoism/altruism dichotomy What’s good for you is good for others Aristotle understands the role of unquantifiable judgment

Virtue Ethics Criticisms Underlying teleology - purpose in nature? Is there a virtue for every moral value? Is Aristotle universalizing his bourgeois intellectual values or those of Greek culture?