ETHICS

Lesson 13
Virtue Ethics

Topic Lesson 13: Virtue Ethics

Duration 3 hours
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Lesson 14: Contractarianism
Session
At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:
Learning - Elaborate what virtue ethics is.
Objectives - Critique the virtue ethics on its value and limitation.
- Practice the virtue ethics in life situation.
Resources and  Hand-outs
Material  Powerpoint Presentation
-Aristotle. Rhetoric, Poetics, and Nicomachaen Ethics trans. Thomas
Taylor. (London: Convent Garden) 1818.
References -Babor, Eddie. Ethics: The Philosophical Discipline of Actions,
Updated edition. Manila: Rex Book Store, 2006.
-Montemayor, Felix. Ethics: The Philosophy of Life. Manila:
National Book Store, 1994.

Session Outline Specifics

INTRODUCTION
 Greetings, attendance, and settling down
(5 mins)

Group of three words

Procedure: Shuffle all these words and let the student group them
correctly by three. They will write it in a piece of paper either by
individual or groupings.
Intellectual arrogance, Wisdom, ignorance
ACTIVITY Confidence, courage, fear
(30 mins) Pleasure, Temperament, Pain
Prodigality, Liberality, Meanness
Boastfulness, truthfulness, modest
Envy, righteous indignation, spite
Indifference, goodness, maleficence
Sophisticated, beautiful, ugliness
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Employing Socratic method of questioning

ANALYSIS
(20 mins)
 What did you notice in each group of three
 Where is the excess?
 Where is the deficient?
 What is the balance?

Employ the class in critical discussion about Virtue ethics:

-The meaning and samples of virtue
-The Objective Values
Aristotle Nichomachaen Ethics
-Telos,
-Virtue as a habit
-Happiness as a virtue
-Golden Mean or Balance
ABSTRACTION
(1 hour) St. Thomas Aquinas Natural Law
-The natural and its tenets
-Happiness as constitutive of moral and cardinal virtues
 Aristotle. Rhetoric, Poetics, and Nicomachaen Ethics trans.
Thomas Taylor. (London: Convent Garden) 1818.
 Page 28-30 of Babor, Eddie. Ethics: The Philosophical
Discipline of Actions, Updated edition. Manila: Rex Book
Store, 2006.
 Page 194 of Montemayor, Felix. Ethics: The Philosophy of
Life. Manila: National Book Store, 1994.
 Case analysis employing the virtue ethics of Aristotle and
Thomas on bioethical issues like abortion, gay marriage,
euthanasia. They will critique those case employing the
APPLICATION/ virtue ethics.
ASSESSMENT Options:
(1 hour) It could be a short ten-line essay individual, or group sharing
discussion where one representative per group will report, or
online short quiz via LMS

CLOSURE
(5 mins)
 Ask for questions and/or clarifications.
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 Thank you and see you next session!