Virtue Ethics:

Aristotle
Agenda
Virtue Ethics: Aristotle

Aristotle

Telos

Virtue as a Habit

Happiness as a virtue

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Virtue Ethics: • Virtue Ethics is a general term for theories that put
emphasis on the role of character and virtue in living one’s
life rather than doing one’s duty or acting to bring about
Aristotle the consequences

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Aristotle
Aristotle was born in a small colony of
Stagira in Greece . That was fifteen years
after the death of Socrates, the teacher of
Plato

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Telos

• This direction is what we foresee as the outcome of our

act. Conversely, we act in order to get us to the intended
direction. In short, we may not get to our destination if we
do not act. This is what telos means for Aristotle.

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Two things about the end as good
• 1. Aristotle insists that any good is achievable. Nothing in real life that
good end is non-achievable by human action. From the epistemological
point-of-view, only human being are capable of seeing the good in all things

• 2. Every action that aims in achieving the good is the telos/end of human
actions. It only means that the result of out ethical decision-making is good.
In fact there are so many seemingly good end in life , and sometimes we
understand we understand them understand we understand them
subjectively and relatively. Simply our understanding of the good my not
necessarily good to others
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Two feature that serve criteria of
determining the good
1. The finality of the object of
human actions has two views:
• The dominant or monistic view
-This claims that the aim of act is good
• Inclusivist’s View
-This claim that good which is the result of the
series of human act
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2. The self-sufficiency of the object
of the human action. This means
that the object of the act must be
something that will make life
worthwhile. One can say that it is
not enough to just fulfill what one
intends to do. Without considering
whether it is worth of doing and
acting or not
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Virtue as a habit
Aristotle explicates about the acquisition of character excellence by habituation (Ethismos).
Character excellence and habit are the two important terms we need to consider here.

• Character-means the development of the personality that resulted in the application of virtues

• Habit- means hat certain human acts are being carried out frequently .

It only means that when a person carries a certain act only once it is just a plain act not a habitual
act

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Two kinds of Virtue
• Moral Virtue • Intellectual Virtue

- the moral virtue of Aristotle, when - it helps us what particular virtue

put into action should observe among moral virtues, we need to
moderation. This moderation entails apply under specific circumstances
that one has to avoid what is excess or
defect in action

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Excess and defects of the following virtue
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 Happiness as a virtue

The telos or end off our human actions which are what we desire and
tend for good. From the dominant or monistic view, we see some
series of actions by its corresponding results, with the rest subordinate
goods and the as is the dominant good. This is not all there is there are
also series of dominant goods in the scheme of human action

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 • Bi-ay, Shyden

Members • Biboso, Keisha Lane

• Delaguinson, Kesialyn

• Dimson, Angel Hope

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