Ethics and Philosophy - Mr. Parsons` Homework Page
... the goodness of individuals and what it means to live a good life. • Virtue Ethics is particularly concerned with the moral character of human beings. ...
... the goodness of individuals and what it means to live a good life. • Virtue Ethics is particularly concerned with the moral character of human beings. ...
Happiness
... Aristotle had said that the happiness that comes as a by-product of living a virtuous life is the highest good because: 1. Happiness is desired by all. 2. Happiness is self-sufficient: once we have it, we lack nothing of importance. 3. Happiness is final: we desire it only for itself, and not as ...
... Aristotle had said that the happiness that comes as a by-product of living a virtuous life is the highest good because: 1. Happiness is desired by all. 2. Happiness is self-sufficient: once we have it, we lack nothing of importance. 3. Happiness is final: we desire it only for itself, and not as ...
Ethical theorists: A comparison of main ideas
... To be happy is to live well and to do well Human activity aims at achieving the good Since the highest capacity of humans is to be rational, the highest form of happiness is based on rational behaviour Be moderate in all things ...
... To be happy is to live well and to do well Human activity aims at achieving the good Since the highest capacity of humans is to be rational, the highest form of happiness is based on rational behaviour Be moderate in all things ...
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... hear and breathe, and [we] never know any reason why the [morals] are what they are. The justification of them is that when we wake to consciousness of life we find the facts which already hold us in the bonds of tradition, custom and habit.” ...
... hear and breathe, and [we] never know any reason why the [morals] are what they are. The justification of them is that when we wake to consciousness of life we find the facts which already hold us in the bonds of tradition, custom and habit.” ...
Virtue Ethics - Religious Studies
... philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre wrote a hugely influential book After Virtue. Essentially, he considers the history of Virtue Ethics and attempts to produce a version of the system which can work in the modern age. MacIntyre observes that ancient societies developed a series of virtues agreed by thei ...
... philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre wrote a hugely influential book After Virtue. Essentially, he considers the history of Virtue Ethics and attempts to produce a version of the system which can work in the modern age. MacIntyre observes that ancient societies developed a series of virtues agreed by thei ...
Virtue Ethics
... philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre wrote a hugely influential book After Virtue. Essentially, he considers the history of Virtue Ethics and attempts to produce a version of the system which can work in the modern age. MacIntyre observes that ancient societies developed a series of virtues agreed by thei ...
... philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre wrote a hugely influential book After Virtue. Essentially, he considers the history of Virtue Ethics and attempts to produce a version of the system which can work in the modern age. MacIntyre observes that ancient societies developed a series of virtues agreed by thei ...
Ethics & Nanotechnology Summer Bridge Program XXVI
... Nanobots inside us curing all diseases! The ability to build or remold anything, including ourselves, from the atomic level up! ...
... Nanobots inside us curing all diseases! The ability to build or remold anything, including ourselves, from the atomic level up! ...
Ethical theorists: A comparison of main ideas
... To be happy is to live well and to do well Human activity aims at achieving the good Since the highest capacity of humans is to be rational, the highest form of happiness is based on rational behaviour Be moderate in all things ...
... To be happy is to live well and to do well Human activity aims at achieving the good Since the highest capacity of humans is to be rational, the highest form of happiness is based on rational behaviour Be moderate in all things ...
Consequentialist Theories
... order in society.” Can you imagine the potential problems with Rule Utilitarianism? * If it is difficult to know consequences with a single act in a single situation, how in the world do we assess the consequences of all actions and situations covered by a particular rule? ...
... order in society.” Can you imagine the potential problems with Rule Utilitarianism? * If it is difficult to know consequences with a single act in a single situation, how in the world do we assess the consequences of all actions and situations covered by a particular rule? ...
Contradiction, Reasoning, and Misogyny in Democritus` Ethics
... first. If 80 is true, then one couldn’t put the affairs of the state as their first priority. The vast size of the affairs of any state, which would not be their own affairs, and would include warfare, trade, immigration, budgeting, infrastructure maintenance, and many others, means an individual w ...
... first. If 80 is true, then one couldn’t put the affairs of the state as their first priority. The vast size of the affairs of any state, which would not be their own affairs, and would include warfare, trade, immigration, budgeting, infrastructure maintenance, and many others, means an individual w ...
Objectivism 101: Life and Happiness
... “Happiness is the successful state of life, suffering is the warning signal of failure, of death. Just as the pleasure-pain mechanism of man's body is an automatic indicator of his body's welfare or injury, a barometer of its basic alternative, life or death—so the emotional mechanism of man's consc ...
... “Happiness is the successful state of life, suffering is the warning signal of failure, of death. Just as the pleasure-pain mechanism of man's body is an automatic indicator of his body's welfare or injury, a barometer of its basic alternative, life or death—so the emotional mechanism of man's consc ...
Ethical Theory - Watford Grammar School For Boys
... 1. pragmatism: it is based on experience rather than on theory 2. relativism: it is based on making the absolute laws of Christian ethics relative 3. positivism: it begins with belief in the reality and importance of love ...
... 1. pragmatism: it is based on experience rather than on theory 2. relativism: it is based on making the absolute laws of Christian ethics relative 3. positivism: it begins with belief in the reality and importance of love ...
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... What Ethics Isn’t Ethics is not the same as ‘morals’ – Morality: a set of beliefs one embraces, to provide the basis for right/wrong, good/bad distinctions – Ethics brings morality into real-life dilemmas*, concluding with ‘what ought to be done’ *Why are they dilemmas? Because two or more moral va ...
... What Ethics Isn’t Ethics is not the same as ‘morals’ – Morality: a set of beliefs one embraces, to provide the basis for right/wrong, good/bad distinctions – Ethics brings morality into real-life dilemmas*, concluding with ‘what ought to be done’ *Why are they dilemmas? Because two or more moral va ...
consciousness of self, of time and of death in greek philosophy
... of ourselves, aware not only of our long-term prospects, but also of the very fact of our being aware, of thinking, these things. This consciousness (C) includes both awareness of our coming death (A) and of ourselves as thinking about these things. The ways in which we think about death (B) might m ...
... of ourselves, aware not only of our long-term prospects, but also of the very fact of our being aware, of thinking, these things. This consciousness (C) includes both awareness of our coming death (A) and of ourselves as thinking about these things. The ways in which we think about death (B) might m ...
Lectures 14-15: Deontological & Consequential Ethics
... The constraint that the second formula imposes is that the maxim of an action must be such that any other free and rational person can adopt it. Treating humanity as an end in itself is, for Kant, respecting our capacity for free and rational choice; in his term, it is respecting our autonomy. I am ...
... The constraint that the second formula imposes is that the maxim of an action must be such that any other free and rational person can adopt it. Treating humanity as an end in itself is, for Kant, respecting our capacity for free and rational choice; in his term, it is respecting our autonomy. I am ...
Lectures 6-7 Deontological & Consequential Ethics
... The constraint that the second formula imposes is that the maxim of an action must be such that any other free and rational person can adopt it. Treating humanity as an end in itself is, for Kant, respecting our capacity for free and rational choice; in his term, it is respecting our autonomy. I am ...
... The constraint that the second formula imposes is that the maxim of an action must be such that any other free and rational person can adopt it. Treating humanity as an end in itself is, for Kant, respecting our capacity for free and rational choice; in his term, it is respecting our autonomy. I am ...
Plato: Phaedo (Selections) 1 And now, O my judges, I desire to
... happens with this foolish temperance. For there are pleasures which they are afraid of losing; and in their desire to keep them, they abstain from some pleasures, because they are overcome by others; and although to be conquered by pleasure is called by men intemperance, to them the conquest of plea ...
... happens with this foolish temperance. For there are pleasures which they are afraid of losing; and in their desire to keep them, they abstain from some pleasures, because they are overcome by others; and although to be conquered by pleasure is called by men intemperance, to them the conquest of plea ...
Boethius Dacus on the supreme good
... of the value of beings. This delight is greater than that of sense. Therefore, he despises sense pleasures. But many sins and vices consist in excessive sense pleasure. Thirdly, because there is no sin in understanding and theorizing. There is no possibility of excess and of sin in the order of supr ...
... of the value of beings. This delight is greater than that of sense. Therefore, he despises sense pleasures. But many sins and vices consist in excessive sense pleasure. Thirdly, because there is no sin in understanding and theorizing. There is no possibility of excess and of sin in the order of supr ...
Morality and Ethics (cont. 2)
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... the philosopher to analyze the concept being discussed, thereby allowing the philosopher to discover what the meaning of his terms linguistic confusion. The aim of metaethics is to make a better understanding of concepts and terms used in ethical discourse so that people are better positioned to cre ...
... the philosopher to analyze the concept being discussed, thereby allowing the philosopher to discover what the meaning of his terms linguistic confusion. The aim of metaethics is to make a better understanding of concepts and terms used in ethical discourse so that people are better positioned to cre ...
Kant`s moral theory has acquired the reputation of being forbiddingly
... and now she cannot. That is the tragedy. We could not eliminate the tragedy just by getting her to cheer up. 2. You think someone is your friend, but really he ridicules you behind your back. No one ever tells you, so you never know. Is this situation unfortunate for you? Hedonism would have to say ...
... and now she cannot. That is the tragedy. We could not eliminate the tragedy just by getting her to cheer up. 2. You think someone is your friend, but really he ridicules you behind your back. No one ever tells you, so you never know. Is this situation unfortunate for you? Hedonism would have to say ...
Class #10 - 5/14/12
... agreed upon standards of determining one from the other. • Thus, both of these views differ from other views which cannot provide any basis for common ground in developing ethical guidelines, such as subjectivism. ...
... agreed upon standards of determining one from the other. • Thus, both of these views differ from other views which cannot provide any basis for common ground in developing ethical guidelines, such as subjectivism. ...
Philosophy as an Art of Living
... body-scan is aimed precisely at heightening awareness (2012, p.165). The audience members at a dance performance who have engaged in various somaesthetic practices, then, pay attention better not only because they are able to sit more comfortably, but also because these practices are themselves are ...
... body-scan is aimed precisely at heightening awareness (2012, p.165). The audience members at a dance performance who have engaged in various somaesthetic practices, then, pay attention better not only because they are able to sit more comfortably, but also because these practices are themselves are ...
Philosophy 220
... Thus, an action is right iff its consequences would be at least as good as the consequences of any alternative action that the agent might instead perform. ...
... Thus, an action is right iff its consequences would be at least as good as the consequences of any alternative action that the agent might instead perform. ...
Class #9 - 8/5/10
... (By the way, if you were wondering who was the first philosopher to stress the important difference between factual and normative statements and that one cannot think critically about ethics without keeping this difference clear, it was John Stuart Mill.) ...
... (By the way, if you were wondering who was the first philosopher to stress the important difference between factual and normative statements and that one cannot think critically about ethics without keeping this difference clear, it was John Stuart Mill.) ...