Nicomachean Ethics on Moral Virtue Aristotle believes that virtue‚ or excellence‚ can be distinguished into two different types. One being intellectual virtue‚ and the other being moral virtue. Aristotle encompasses intellectual virtue as being philosophical wisdom‚ understanding and practical wisdom. He considers moral virtue to be of liberality and temperance. Aristotle distinguishes between the two types using his previous argument about the irrational element. Aristotle shows that the irrational
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believe in the rights of defenceless animals being tested on in laboratories for life? The animal Bill of Rights is to protect animals from exploitation‚ cruelty‚ neglect‚ and abuse. So many animals suffer from day to day ‚some are not in the right care or shelter. Some are stuck in laboratories for life in tiny cages‚ making them go crazy and depressed because they do have feelings and the right of wildlife to a natural habitat. I agree with the animal Bill of Rights because so many animals have been
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Throughout the books of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics that we have read thus far‚ he speaks of virtues both intellectual in nature as well as moral‚ appearing in people first as a result of nature. He then describes how through further education and “habituation”‚ those characteristics or behaviors become active in our lives and allow us to behave justly. Further‚ although virtues are a thing relating to the individual‚ he discusses them in relation to one another‚ sort of generalizing them for
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Essay #1 Edmund Pellegrino states‚ in the Virtuous Physician and the Ethics of Medicine “that in most professional ethical codes‚ virtue and duty-based ethics are intermingled.” He is explaining how in both codes the medical professional is looking to the best interest of others‚ virtuously the patient. Virtue-based ethics is considered doing what is right not just because you are told to but because it is right. Duty-based ethics is the obligation and laws a person is expected to abide by with others
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Developed by Aristotle‚ virtue ethics presents an agent-centered moral theory based on virtues and what it entails for an individual to act virtuously. Since its development‚ virtue ethics has been criticized due to its agent-centeredness and the possible lack of guidance it provides on how the agent ought to act. Robert Louden argued that virtue ethics as a moral theory should be overlooked as it is unable to fully tell individuals how they should act. The aim of this essay will be to show that
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Virtue Ethics as discussed by Julia Annas is based around the idea that people do things because they are right‚ rather than because they have to. The things that people do must be a virtue and not a habit. A habit is “someone’s character or source of action in the agent that bypass a person’s practical reasoning‚” and a virtue is a “disproportion to act for reasons” and is built up by making choices and is used for future choices (516‚ Annas). People are to learn from experiences and society to
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experiment [see text‚ chap 14.6] is designed to show why socialism is more desireable than capitalism. But it also (indirectly) supports Rawls’s “Justice as Fairness” against libertarian market-driven models based on entitlement claims and property rights. • (i) Analyze Cohen’s essay‚ drawing comparisons/contrasts with Rawls’s egalitarianism and Nozick’s/Hosper’s libertarianism. • (ii) If you were given the choice – from outside the Original Position -- to live your life (presumably with your
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society’s moral codes are the same. In this topic of Cultural Relativism Theory there is no universal truth. The moral code in a society maybe good or bad‚ nobody knows‚ so nobody can judge whose better. The moral code of a society determines what is right within that society and it is mere arrogance for us to try judge the conduct of other people In Cultural Relativism Theory each culture has different moral codes and their moral code could be good or bad in that society. For example the Callatians
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Animals have been used in research for countless numbers of years‚ dating back all the way to BCE. The number of animals in testing has grown as the years have passed‚ and their purpose has resulted in treatments for lung cancer‚ childhood leukemia‚ breast cancer‚ and many others. When most people think about animal science‚ they think about the cruelty and immoral treatment of animals; they do not bother to think about the side effects of animal testing. The medicine we buy or are prescribed‚ the
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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 right or wrong‚
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