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Exploring Virtue Ethics: Becoming the Best Person You Can Be

Delve into the Ethics of Virtue and Duty to discover what traits of character to cultivate and universal moral guidelines to follow. Understand Teleology, the purpose of actions, and the essence of human existence. Learn why happiness is tied to acting in accordance with your nature. Explore how virtues and vices shape our actions and relationships, and how education plays a vital role in ethical development.

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Exploring Virtue Ethics: Becoming the Best Person You Can Be

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  1. Ethics of Virtue What kind of person should I be? What traits of character should I develop? Ethics of Duty Vs. Ethics of Virtue Ethics of Duty Concerned with actions What should I do? What is my obligation? What are the universal moral guidelines?

  2. Teleology: What are things for? Purpose – To Chop Wood Essence – An Axe is a Wood Chopping tool Defining activity – Chops wood

  3. What are human beings for? nous

  4. What does everybody want? Happiness! (Eudaimonia) • You can only be happy when you live according to • Your nature/purpose • The Candidates • Physical Pleasure – does not fulfill our higher nature & is only temporary. • Success – self-focused & it’s external. • Money – Just an instrument • Virtue – Happiness

  5. 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 ….

  6. Finding the Mean

  7. Rational Animals

  8. Social Animals

  9. Relational selves

  10. Philia – Greek word meaning affection for all nearAnd dear Friendship requires recognized Mutual affection and Respect Types of Friendship Utility Pleasure Virtue Aristotle's Theory of Friendship

  11. Justice & Law The purpose of law and government is to help all all live as if, to some degree, we are all friends.

  12. What Would Socrates Do? WWSD?

  13. Habit and Training

  14. Education is key!

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