Aims and Objectives To know and understand Aristotle’s ideas of Virtue To understand questions arising To Consider the defining nature of Virtue

Q: Why should anyone be Virtuous? What is its value? Eudaimonia

Does being virtuous lead to flourishing of the individual or the community? Katie Price Estimated £40 million worth As well as income from her TV Reality shows and modelling – she has launched two perfumes, a lingerie collection and hair care products. Recently paid £ to to enter ‘I’m A Celebrity get Me Out of Here’ I’m trouble! price

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Sir Fred Goodwin Four months after leaving Royal Bank of Scotland, former chief executive Sir Fred Goodwin is under fire for the generosity of his £650,000-a-year pension. Sir Fred was in charge of the bank when it failed and he had to step down after RBS had to be bailed out by the government, with tax-payer’s money. He revelled in his nickname of Fred the Shred for cutting costs - and jobs. He was also given a £2.86 million bonus – after the Bank collapsed.

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Alan is a primary school teacher. He has been teaching young children Key stages 1-2 for 10 years. He works in a stressful environment, long hours (regularly preparing lesson materials outside of school hours, marking, writing reports, attending meetings with parents) and earns the national average salary of £25,000 per year. He is married with a five year old son. Because of the need to reduce the economic deficit, Alan is one of over 700 thousand public sector workers who faces possible job loss, a pay-cut and having to pay more into his pension, only to get less out when he retires. Alan and his wife are struggling to make ends meet.

Chloe is a psychiatric nurse. She works hard, helping to offer therapy to troubled patients, counselling those with clinical depression. She rents a studio flat in Brighton which has a leaking roof. She drives a Citroen 2CV which is frequently vandalized by local youths. After paying rent, bills and food bills she has about £30 each week to spend on herself and her cat. She lives with her longterm boyfriend. She regularly runs marathons for charity

Q: What do we mean by flourishing? What do we mean by ‘reward’? Virtue is its own reward

Explain Aristotle’s view of virtue ethics, and show how this view can be applied to one ethical issue you have studied. (30 marks) Example AO1 Question: Example AO2 question: Virtue theory is an idealized view of human nature. Discuss this view.

Aristotle : Virtue Theory 384 – 322 BC Aquinas: Natural Law 13th Century Bentham: Moral Theories 18th Century: enlightenment MacIntyre / Foot / Anscombe 20 th Century What kind of person should I be? What kind of person should I be to fulfil God’s purpose? What moral laws should I follow? What kind of actions are ‘good’ actions? How can we be truly moral without asking what it means to be a ‘good’ person?