Analyse the key features of Virtue Ethics Virtue ethics is a custom which goes back to Plato and Aristotle; it is also known as aretaic ethics‚ from the Greek word arête meaning excellence or virtue. There are a number of key features to virtue ethics‚ one of the most significant being that it is an agent-centered theory rather than act-centered theory. Therefore it asks the questions ‘What sort of person ought I to be?’ rather than ‘How ought I to act’. The concept does not focus on actions being
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Businesses are completely incompatible with virtue ethics. Discuss. Business ethics is concerned with how well a business treats its stakeholders and whether a business’s actions are seen as ethical. Within business ethics there are three approaches which could be adopted. The first approach is that a business’s main goal could be to maximise profits and nothing more‚ where the ethics of the business wouldn’t necessarily be important. This view is supported by Milton Friedman. Secondly‚ some ethicists
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According to Aristotle‚ in order to pursue virtue we must learn to both feel and act correctly. Being a virtuous person entails being affected by pleasure and pain. In book II of “Nicomachean Ethics”‚ Aristotle begins by explaining how virtuous actions are acquired by habit. He writes‚ “Rather‚ we are by nature able to acquire them‚ and we are completed through habit” (Aristotle 18). Essentially‚ Aristotle is saying that we acquire habits as we acquire skills. Virtues are acquired through habituation and
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Aristotle divides virtue into two components: intellectual and moral. Intellectual virtues are about learning to be the best you can be by understanding the world and achieving goals. Moral Virtues are about doing the greater good and being a better person‚ we can reach moral perfection by learning from our mistakes and doing what feels right naturally. According to Aristotle‚ happiness is our ultimate end toward which all our actions are aimed. Furthermore‚ Aristotle suggests that we might discover
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To what extent do modern versions of Virtue Ethics address the weaknesses of Aristotle’s teachings on virtue? Aristotle’s idea of Virtue Ethics was influenced by his belief that all things and all humans have a purpose (a telos). For him a complete explanation of something has to include its final cause or purpose which essentially is to realise its potential. Virtue Ethics itself is concerned with the characteristics of a person rather than how a person behaves and it is this he outlined in his
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Complete duty is link to being what is “right”. Middle duty is the reasoning behind why has it been done. When Cicero writes about individual activism we consider the duties that are honorable and dishonorable. What is honorable or dishonorable? People’s spirits are often pulled between opposing opinions. The individual then has to see whether or not it will offer him an advantage in life. Cicero discusses the major principal thought on duty which is based on a conservative standpoint. The different
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In his Treatise of Human Nature David Hume offers two categories of virtue which aim to divide the moral terrain into the natural and the artificial virtues. In order to assess Hume’s distinction‚ I shall firstly establish what Hume identifies ‘virtue’ to be. I shall then proceed to catalogue two distinctions employed by Hume in establishing his distinction: their degree of partiality and equality and the motive distinction. As Hume’s distinction has been contested for its blurriness I shall thus
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1. How does Malcolm X’s understanding of racial identity change over the course of his life? Consider the different phases of Malcolm’s life. Answer for Study Question 1 >> During his life‚ Malcolm has as many attitudes toward his identity as he has names‚ and he experiences a significant transformation over the course of the autobiography. Early on‚ Malcolm learns that there is no way to escape his black identity. As a child he is called “nigger” so often that he believes it is his given
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Anabella Morabito REL 343 5J - Nickoloff 09/24/13 Three Theological Virtues: As seen in Dorothy Day’s life Dorothy Day was a living example in her lifetime‚ and still today‚ of a disciple of Jesus; all her actions rotated on the single axis which a life inspired by the Gospel provided her. If one were to look at her experience of discipleship as the only experience of the Catholic Church‚ which is called to be the working body of Jesus’ message in the world today‚ one would clearly see several
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individuals’ virtues. There are six dimensions of this ethics: Community‚ excellence‚ role identity‚ integrity‚ judgment‚ holism (University of Phoenix‚ 2009). In recent years there has been an increased interest in the application of Aristotelian virtue to business ethics. The objective of this paper is to describe the moral and intellectual virtues defined by Aristotle and the types of pedagogy that might be used to integrate virtue ethics into the business curriculum. Virtues are acquired
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