GOOD

AFTERNOON
Man as the moral agent

A moral agent is a person

who has the ability to
discern right from wrong
and to be held accountable
for his or her own actions.
Moral agents have a moral
responsibility not to cause
unjustified harm
Moral Subject

Human
Animals
Art
Environment
The MORAL COMMUNITY
includes all people from
birth to death.

Theoretically, every person

in the moral community
has equal, natural rights to
moral protection.
Moral community in ethics
-It does not mean a community of
people who act morally or ethically.
This could be a meaning of the
term, but it is not the meaning used
here. In ethics, one’s moral
community consists of all those
beings that one holds in moral
regard.
 “NEVER
INTENTIONALLY
CAUSE
UNJUSTIFIED
HARM”

-ARISTOTLE
MAN AS THE FULLY
FUNCTIONING PERSON

- According to Carl Rogers, a

fully functioning person is one
who is in touch with his or her
deepest and innermost
feelings and desires
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE
FULLY FUNCTIONING
PERSON

Open to experience
Existential Living
Trust feeling
Creativity
- Fulfilled Life
Moral agent
- Moral agents are those
agents expected to meet
the demands of morality.
Not all agents are moral
agents.
VIRTUE
- A virtue is a trait or quality
that is deemed to be morally
good and thus is valued as a
foundation of principle and
good moral being
VICE

-A vice is a practice, behavior,

or habit generally considered
immoral, sinful, criminal, rude,
taboo, depraved, or degrading
in the associated society
 VIRTUE ETHICS
Virtue ethics is philosophy
developed by Aristotle and other
ancient Greeks
It is quest to understand and live
a life of moral character
This character- based approach to
morality assumes that we acquire
virtue through practice
VIRTUE AS A HABIT
-Virtues, according to
Aristotle, are habits and that
the good life is a life of
mindless routine
DEVELOPING VIRTUE AS A HABIT

-Aristotle believed that virtue as habit requires

an intentional choice when you begin.

-Over time one becomes used to behaving

virtuously and after a while one acts virtuously
without needing to use volition. You have
become virtuous, It’s now part of you and how
you act.
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