ETHICS Greek ; ethos – custom‚ character Ethikos- moral‚ showing moral character‚ moral judgment The science of the MORALITY OF HUMAN ACTS Morality is the goodness or badness of an act Moral(good)‚ immoral(bad) and amoral ( indifferent or neutral‚ neither good nor bad) HUMAN ACT-----------------------------------------------------------------ACT OF MAN - Action done with knowledge and consent -no knowledge and consent - Action of man as man and as rational -involuntary 3 ELEMENTS OF HUMAN ACT:
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rules to be followed and maintained in order to accurately judge someone or something as being happy‚ and two of those are virtue and excellence. Aristotle defines a virtue as an activity which demonstrates a good‚ leaves a person feeling well‚ or accomplishes a goal. He also defines excellence by how an activity is perceived in the community. And‚ you cannot have virtue without excellence. Mainly because a person could engage in an activity they believe demonstrates a good‚ accomplishes a goal
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definition of what virtue is compared to previous philosophers such as Thucydides‚ Socrates‚ etc. Previous‚ classical philosophers associated virtue with the good in life. In their eyes‚ a virtuous man is an honorable man. In The Republic of Plato‚ Socrates defines virtue as doing something well and in The Prince Machiavelli defines virtue as your ability to do something. Both philosophers connect their definition with how a city must be run effectively; however‚ the way they associate virtue with their
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philosophers use logic‚ critical thinking‚ and reason to find the answers to a wide variety of non-empirical human questions to what is morally right and wrong. Below I have provided information on three ethical concepts of utilitarianism ethics‚ virtue ethics and deontological ethics. Utilitarianism distinguishes between right and wrong unlike many other ethical theories it was theorizes and founded by Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill around the 1800’s
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static and impersonal accounts of moral theory in favor of a developmental‚ personal‚ and knowledge-based account of virtue ethics. Most people‚ she argues‚ near Greavu 2 adulthood with only a limited‚ parochial understanding of morality that they developed largely because of the family and/or culture they grew up in. Realizing that some of their ideas about morality and virtue are mere convention (and maybe even prejudicial)‚ they then attempt to better themselves. One way that they may go about
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Latonya R. Brand HIUS 221 Professor Daniel Christensen 16 July 2012 One of the over-arching themes in Franklin ’s Autobiography is that of self-improvement. Franklin intends for his own experience to serve as a model for others. Discuss key ways that Franklin presents his story as an illustration of self-improvement. Is he successful in the attempt? What motivates him toward this attempt? Does he strike you as a self-promoter or a genuinely benevolent man desirous of helping others?
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dialogue opens with Meno asking Socrates whether virtue can be imparted‚ or taught‚ with the two men dwelling on this question (alongside more central questions of what virtue is) for the entirety of the text. Within the text‚ Socrates tries to dichotomize an ethical term by inquisitively questioning an individual who believes to know the term’s denotation‚ but ultimately determines that neither he nor the "expert" really know what the word means. "Is virtue something that can be taught? Or does it come
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Water or nature: • Thales : the origin of all matter is water = Thales believed that the Earth floats on water and all things come to be from water. = that the earth rests on water (He explained his theory by said that the earth is at rest because it is of the nature of wood and similar substances which have the capacity to float on water‚ although not on air). = the water is forever Heraclitus : everything changing Dao (Daoism) : can be swirling within itself. Such motion is
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telos was a completion of self. It was believed that perfection of the goal‚ of self‚ is the same for all of us‚ that it was in our human nature. Arête was being or having excellence in life‚ having virtue. Arête would seem to be of more importance to Socrates because Socrates believed that virtue‚ or Arête‚ is knowledge‚ and one of the most important things when learning wisdom and knowledge is being able to know what you do not know. Socrates claims that you acquire wisdom and knowledge through
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By studying Plato’s views on the soul‚ virtues‚ and forms‚ one can understand his outlooks on the individual and natural purpose‚ or telos. Plato had a teleological worldview‚ so he believed everything in nature had an end‚ or purpose. In his famous Allegory of the Cave‚ along with the Sun and Line analogies‚ Plato outlines the spiritual and intellectual journey of a human from ignorance into goodness and knowledge‚ which symbolizes a human reaching his or her purpose. This essay will evaluate Plato’s
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