Although there are many people who attempt to embody the virtue of happiness‚ Bill Gates appear to be the one to do it most effectively. In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics‚ he defines happiness to be obtained through “habituation or by some sort of training” of the virtues‚ a practice Bill Gates knows well (Aristotle 121). According to Forbes magazine‚ he was voted to be “the world’s most generous person”‚ further expressing his ability to exercise virtues (Mac). But is Bill Gate only appearing to look virtuous
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Interpretation of Ethical Virtues “An ethical virtue is a habit‚ disposed towards action‚ by deliberate choice‚ being at the mean relative to us‚ and defined by reason and as a prudent man would define it” (The Nicomachean Ethics‚ Book Beta‚ 1107a). Book Beta of The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle revolves around the central concept of virtue‚ in particular‚ ethical virtue. An ethical virtue is comprised of several components‚ the first of which is habit. He believes that ethical virtues are acquired by habituation;
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Journal of Military Ethics‚ Vol. 9‚ No. 3‚ 245Á261‚ 2010 War and the Virtues in Aquinas’s Ethical Thought RYAN R. GORMAN University of Dallas‚ Texas‚ USA ABSTRACT This article argues that Thomas Aquinas’s virtue ethics approach to just war theory provides a solid ethical foundation for thinking about the problem of war. After briefly indicating some shortcomings of contemporary views of international justice‚ including pacifism‚ legalism‚ progressivism‚ realism‚ pragmatism‚ and consequentialism
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On Virtue: Comparing the Views of Confucius and Aristotle Humanities 101 Winter Quarter Strayer University Instructor: Professor Roberta Jones CERTIFICATION OF AUTHORSHIP: I certify that I am the author of this paper and that any assistance received in its presentation is acknowledged and disclosed in the paper (at the end). I have also cited any sources from which I used data‚ ideas‚ or words‚ either quoted directly or paraphrased. I also certify that
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of virtue. According to Aristotle‚ virtue means excellence‚ it’s a type of development and exercise of capacity to reason. Happiness is the highest good for humans‚ we can only be happy if we fulfill our basic function or purpose‚ which is act according to reason. The use of reason is a virtue‚ happiness requires us to develop our virtues‚ in order to develop virtue‚ you’ll have to act good and practice reasoning. Aristotle also divided virtue into intellectual virtues and moral virtues. Intellectual
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An analysis of the general rule about acceptance by silence ZHANG Li Introduction Professor McKendrick in his book writes ‘The general rule is that silence does not amount to an acceptance and this is a good one’. He then gives the reasoning by the sale of unsolicited goods. I agree with this rule and the reasoning given by Professor McKendrick. But I think the reasoning mentioned above is just one situation in the general
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(plato.stanford.edu) Virtue based ethical theories focus less on the rules and regulations that people need to be following and focuses more on the why and what the person’s character development should entail. Teleological theories focus on the goals of the actions‚ and the deontological theories focus on acting in accordance with the moral laws. The virtue based ethical theory suggests that you act in ways that develop virtuous characteristics
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the use of extra diegetic sound. By doing this the viewer is left with silence. This is something that the audience is not used to experiencing. Horror films have been known to capitalize on the use of silence‚ but never to this extent. Generally‚ horror films use silence only to follow it with something comparable to a blood-curdling scream. However‚ Caché defied the rule. It had silence‚ after silence‚ after silence always leaving the audience waiting on the edge of their seat‚ never validating
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applied to this case is rights theory and virtues theory. However‚ both of these two theories lead to different ethical outcomes. While rights theory supports the sex robots being made and used by consumers‚ virtue theory goes against the selling and product of sex robots giving the standard argument that lewdness feeds on itself. First‚ virtue theory does not support the uses of sex robots. Virtue theory allows us to develop good moral characters. Some virtues that may conflict with this case is responsibility
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definitions of moral virtues and how they are acquired. He reaches an implicit conclusion that performing virtuous actions is not sufficient for counting as virtuous by arguing that one must perform virtuous actions in the manner of truly virtuous people in order to become virtuous. This essay will thus analyse the structure of Aristotle’s argument on the relationship of virtuous actions to one’s virtuous character. In Aristotle’s first premise for his argument‚ he contends that moral virtues are a form
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