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32 Cards in this Set
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Eudaimonism |
the good life is the life of virtue and the life of virtue is an activity in accordance with reason man's highest function |
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Agent-based |
an account of virtue based on our common-sense intuitions about which character traits are admirable |
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Ethics of Care |
calls for a change in how morality is viewed from a masculine-based morality which emphasizes justice and autonomy to feminine virtues such as caring for others, patience, the ability to nurture and self-sacrifice. |
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Supreme good |
The good as an end in itself |
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Aristotle |
The philosopher who said, "Though man has the basic functions of life which he has in common with both plants and animals, such as nutrition, growth and reproductionit is only he who has the ability to think, deliberate and make decisions." |
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Soul |
For Aristotle, _____ is the principle of life. |
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Rational and irrational |
Two parts of the soul |
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Speculative intellect and Practical Intellect |
Two parts of the Rational soul |
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Desiderative and Appetitive |
Two parts of Irrational soul |
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Vegetative, Sensitive, Rational |
Aristotle's Hierarchy of Souls |
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Understanding, science, and wisdom |
Speculative part of the intellect |
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Art, Prudence |
Practical part of the Intellect |
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Moral Virtues |
concerned with feelings and actions, and it is the mean between two extremes: the vice of excess and the vice of deficiency |
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courage, temperance, liberality, magnificence, truthfulness, magnanimity, proper ambition, Wittiness, truthfulness, patience, modesty and righteous indignation |
Moral virtues according to Aristotle |
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Subordinate or instrumental good |
the good which is sought as a means to an end is called |
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pleasure, honor, and contemplation |
Man pursues happiness in three ways |
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Intellectual and Moral |
Two kinds of Virtue |
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Moral virtue |
A virtue formed by habit |
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Intellectual virtue |
A virtue that owes its origin and development chiefly to teaching and for that reason requires experience and time |
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Doctrine of the Mean |
Moderation according to Aristotle is also called |
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True |
some identify happiness with virtue, some with practical wisdom, others with a kind of philosophic wisdom, others with these, or one of these, accompanied by pleasure or not without pleasure; while others also include external prosperity." TRUE OR FALSE. |
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Intellectual virtue |
Virtues refer to reasoning or truth |
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Philosophic wisdom, understanding, practical wisdom |
Intellectual virtue includes |
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Virtues |
Mean between two vices |
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It makes more sense to focus onvirtues than on obligations, rights, or consequences. FOR or AGAINST virtue ethics |
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Personal relationships can be morally relevant todecision making. For or Against Virtue Ethics |
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Virtue ethics recognizes that our moral decision makingskills develop over time. For or against Virtue ethics |
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There are no irresolvable moral dilemmas. For or against virtue ethics |
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Virtue ethics recognizes the important role that emotions play in living a moral life. For or against virtue ethics |
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Different people have different conceptions of humanflourishing. For or against virtue ethics |
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Virtue ethics cannot be used to guide government policies. For or against virtue ethics |
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Against |
Virtue ethics undermines attempts to hold people responsible for their action. For or against Virtue ethics |
