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Ethics of Duty Vs. Ethics of Virtue

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2 Ethics of Duty Vs. Ethics of Virtue
What should I do? What is my obligation? What are the universal moral guidelines? Ethics of Virtue What kind of person should I be? What traits of character should I develop? How can I be truly happy? (Eudaimonia)

3 Teleology: What are things for?
Purpose Essence Main activity

4 What are human beings for?
nous

5 Rational Animals

6 Social Animals

7 Relational Self: Aristotle's Theory of Friendship

8 What Virtue is A virtue is a good quality A vice is a bad quality
But how can we know which qualities count as virtues? Virtue = df. ‘A disposition to act, lying in a mean, relative to us, between an excess and a deficiency ….

9 Finding the Mean

10 What Would Socrates Do? WWSD?

11 Habit and Training


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