TOK ethics 4 - virtue ethics

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Today

Virtue ethics 

What is a virtue?

 Virtues - examples

• courage 
• generosity 
• wisdom
  
• patience
  
• honesty
  
• determination
  
• etc. 

What is a vice? Can you give an example?

Vices - examples

• jealousy
  
• vanity
  
• laziness
  
• greed
  
• pride
  
• gluttony
• etc. 

Virtue ethics 

Looks at actor

Virtuous person

Virtue in between two vices

01:02

"No rule book needed" is the case for:

1. Consequentialism/Utilitarianism (from Bentham and Mill)
2. Deontology/categorical moral reasoning (from Kant)
3. Virtue ethics (from Aristotle)
4. All of these streams in ethics.

02:27

According to Aristotle human beings naturally want to be good.

1. True
2. False

04:54

Can you think of an example of a virtue that can be found as a golden mean in between two vices?

06:51

Why, according to Aristotle, do we have to train our character?

08:13

Would you want to live a Eudaimonistic life? Explain.

Utilitarianism/Consequentialism 

Virtue Ethics

Deontology/Categorical Moral Reasoning. 

Ethics of Care

Focus is on the action.

Focus is on the person. 

Focus is on the consequenses of an action.  

Focus is on social context. 

Utilitarianism/Consequentialism 

Virtue Ethics

Deontology/Categorical Moral Reasoning. 

Ethics of Care

Kant

Aritstole

Bentham & Mill 

Gilligan 

Summarise what you have learned about Virtue Ethics.

See you tomorrow 😀 

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