possess the rational idea of sight. It is simply jelly. The example of the eye reveals Aristotle’s view that everything in nature has a function‚ purpose and an end‚ but as it is manufactured‚ human beings determine this. Aristotle believes that eudaimonia is the final end of all things; it
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The study question • Translate and/or explain the following terms: aesity‚ arêtê‚ endoxa‚ ergon‚ eudaimonia‚ peccatum‚ telos‚ virtus‚ vitium – Arêtê: Greek for virtue‚ or excellence – Virtus and vitium: Latin for virtue and vice – Endoxon (endoxa): Greek‚ reputable opinion(s) • Ergon: Greek‚ function/characteristic activity – • Eudaimonia: Greek‚ happiness‚ well being • – Peccatum: Latin‚ sin • – Telos: Greek‚ end‚ aim • Discuss and/or apply the following concepts: doctrine of
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Humanistic Psychology states that in order to understand a person‚ you must understand his or her personal view of reality or an individual’s meaning of their life. This approach places great focus on a person’s phenomenology‚ or lived conscious experience of the world such as what they hear‚ feel‚ see and think. These perceptions and experiences of one moving through the world is thought to be more important than the world itself. This grounds the center of an individual and according to Funder
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org/criminal-justice-resources/CriminalJusticeDegrees-top10.html. (2011‚ June 13). Retrieved September 11‚ 2011‚ from Criminal justice degree: http://www.criminaljusticedegree.org/criminal-justice-resources/CriminalJusticeDegrees-top10.html Virtue‚ practical wisdom and eudaimonia. (2007‚ July 18). Retrieved September 11‚ 2011‚ from stanford encyclopedia of philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-virtue/#2
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There have been scholars who have Normative ethics: conventional ethical theories: Virtue ethics‚ Deontology and utilitarianism. Virtues ethics focuses on the person not the act. Virtue ethics de-emphasises rules‚ consequences and acts. Aristotle agreed with Socrates and Plato that virtues are central to a well-lived life. He believes that an ethical person was the man of virtues. Virtue is the mean between two extremes. There is no univocal definition of ethics which is also known as moral philosophy
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1(a) Explain the general principles of utilitarianism‚ including reference to both act and rule utilitarianism The theory of utilitarianism was devised by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)‚ an English philosopher‚ who gave us the general principle which is used in Bentham and Mill’s theory of utilitarianism and act and rule utilitarianism. The general principle which utilitarianism is based around is the idea of maximising pleasure and minimising pain. Bentham put forward his hedonistic theory in the
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In comparing both Kant’s resolution and Mill’s resolution to Aristotle’s expected resolution‚ one can view the many similarities and differences between Aristotle’s philosophies and those of Kant and those of Mill. Primarily‚ Aristotle would resolve the moral conflict by siding with the judgement that expresses the virtue as the mean and coincides with achieving a human’s highest end of the Summum Bonum‚ which equates to happiness‚ both according to the situation‚ but not relevant to the individual
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the United States Declaration of Independence. Philosophers and religious thinkers often define happiness in terms of living a good life‚ or flourishing‚ rather than simply as an emotion. Happiness in this sense was used to translate the Greek Eudaimonia‚ and is still used in virtue ethics. Happiness economics suggests that measures of public happiness should be used to supplement more traditional economic measures when evaluating the success of public policy. Research has produced many different
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Utilitarianism says that the result or the consequence of a particular act is the real measure of whether is it positive or negative. This theory enforces emphasises on the phrase “ends over means” and is therefore‚ a consequentialist ethical theory. Despite this‚ Utilitarianism may be interpreted differently or in another form‚ e.g. such as “Rule utilitarianism”‚ which is represented by the two different interpretations of utilitarianism by two consequentialists; John Stuart Mills (Rule utilitarianism)
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Ethics‚ or Moral Philosophy‚ is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing‚ defending‚ and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct. First studied in Ancient Greece around 400 B.C‚ morality is a fundamental part of human society. Without basic morality‚ the human species would have died out before the study of ethics even began. Ethics must have existed before we studied them‚ or -as stated previously‚ we would have died out. Inferring that good must have existed before it was ‘discovered’
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