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Session 19

Character or Virtue Ethics. Session 19. I. Introduction:. How Character Ethics Differ from Principle and Consequentialist Ethics. II. Virtue Ethics: Character Counts. Some Possible Supporting Biblical Passages (1 Samuel 16:7; Mark 7:14-23). II. Virtue Ethics: Character Counts.

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Session 19

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  1. Character or Virtue Ethics Session 19

  2. I. Introduction: How Character Ethics Differ from Principle and Consequentialist Ethics

  3. II. Virtue Ethics: Character Counts • Some Possible Supporting Biblical Passages (1 Samuel 16:7; Mark 7:14-23)

  4. II. Virtue Ethics: Character Counts • Key Aspects of Virtue Ethics • Moral living involves far more than an isolated concern about individual ethical choices

  5. II. Virtue Ethics: Character Counts • Key Aspects of Virtue Ethics • Moral living involves far more than an isolated concern about individual ethical choices • Character is shaped over long periods of time within the context of communities and the important stories that they live out and tell to one another

  6. II. Virtue Ethics: Character Counts • Key Aspects of Virtue Ethics • Ethical decisions are evaluated not only on the basis of the specific actions performed, as well as for what end or goal (Greek, telos) they are carried out, but also for the motivations which lie behind such actions.

  7. II. Virtue Ethics: Character Counts • Key Aspects of Virtue Ethics • Virtues, unlike passions, are enduring aspects of being which consistently characterize a person’s general nature and are formed by the habitual choices that we make as well as the affections we cultivate over long periods of time

  8. II. Virtue Ethics: Character Counts • Some Traditionally Proposed Virtues • The Four Cardinal Virtues • Prudence/Wisdom

  9. II. Virtue Ethics: Character Counts • Some Traditionally Proposed Virtues • The Four Cardinal Virtues • Prudence/Wisdom • Temperance

  10. II. Virtue Ethics: Character Counts • Some Traditionally Proposed Virtues • The Four Cardinal Virtues • Prudence/Wisdom • Temperance • Justice

  11. II. Virtue Ethics: Character Counts • Some Traditionally Proposed Virtues • The Four Cardinal Virtues • Prudence/Wisdom • Temperance • Justice • Courage

  12. II. Virtue Ethics: Character Counts • Some Traditionally Proposed Virtues • The Three Theological Virtues • Faith

  13. II. Virtue Ethics: Character Counts • Some Traditionally Proposed Virtues • The Three Theological Virtues • Faith • Hope

  14. II. Virtue Ethics: Character Counts • Some Traditionally Proposed Virtues • The Three Theological Virtues • Faith • Hope • Love/Charity

  15. II. Virtue Ethics: Character Counts • Some Commonly Proposed Goals of Human Virtue • Goodness

  16. II. Virtue Ethics: Character Counts • Some Commonly Proposed Goals of Human Virtue • Goodness • Happiness/Wellbeing

  17. II. Virtue Ethics: Character Counts • Some Commonly Proposed Goals of Human Virtue • Goodness • Happiness/Wellbeing • Holiness/Christ-likeness

  18. III. Virtue Ethics: Some Evaluative Perspectives • Positive Aspects of Virtue Ethics • As virtue ethics rightly emphasizes, ethical decisions certainly do involve more than isolated actions and must also assess the overall motives and intentions as well as the character of the person making the ethical choice.

  19. III. Virtue Ethics: Some Evaluative Perspectives • Positive Aspects of Virtue Ethics • Biblically speaking, God is far more concerned with the heart, the inner being of a person, than He is with simply their external actions.

  20. III. Virtue Ethics: Some Evaluative Perspectives • Positive Aspects of Virtue Ethics • Virtue ethics recognizes the communal and contextual nature of ethics; namely that we always come from somewhere and are inextricably embedded within living and extended communities.

  21. III. Virtue Ethics: Some Evaluative Perspectives • Negative Aspects of Virtue Ethics • The Propensity to Overemphasize Character and Deemphasize Actions

  22. III. Virtue Ethics: Some Evaluative Perspectives • Negative Aspects of Virtue Ethics • The Propensity to Overemphasize Character and Deemphasize Actions • The Propensity to Overemphasize Ethical Narrative and Deemphasize Ethical Propositions and Principles

  23. III. Virtue Ethics: Some Evaluative Perspectives • Negative Aspects of Virtue Ethics • The Propensity to Overemphasize Community and Deemphasize Transcendence in Ethics

  24. IV. Conclusion:

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