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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)
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Teleology: What are things for?
Purpose Essence Main activity
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What are human beings for?
nous
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Rational Animals
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Social Animals
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Relational Self: Aristotle's Theory of Friendship
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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 ….
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Finding the Mean
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What Would Socrates Do? WWSD?
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Habit and Training
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