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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)

Teleology: What are things for? Purpose Essence Main activity

What are human beings for? nous

Rational Animals

Social Animals

Relational Self: Aristotle's Theory of Friendship

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 ….

Finding the Mean

What Would Socrates Do? WWSD?

Habit and Training