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23 Cards in this Set
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[Supporter] Anscombe |
Virtue is not reliant on duty/action/consequence |
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[Critique] Motive |
Virtuous actions could be for bad ends. |
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[Supporter] Phillipa Foot |
An action is virtuous only if it aims for a good end. |
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[Supporter] Obligation. |
We have no obligation to pursue virtue but a man, in his wisdom, will know it to be the best course of action. |
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[Critique] Louden |
In day to day life, we cannot know what our role models might do. |
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[Critique] Freewill |
If we are simply mimicking another persons actions, we do not have free will. |
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[Supporter] Louden response |
Through reason, we can imagine what our role-models might do. This active effort is beneficial: builds character + individuality. |
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[Supporter] Free will response. |
Anscombe and Aristotle both note that we have no obligation to pursue virtue: if we mimic another persons actions, we do so by our own volition. |
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[Supporter] Bowie |
An archer becomes an archer by practising archery. |
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[Supporter] Rosalind Hursthouse |
Supports the moral/intellectual distinction. Analogy of the child genius: a child could have several intellectual virtues, but lack moral ones. Moral virtues are determined with time and age. |
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[Critique] Behavioural psychologists |
Moral virtues are taught through conditioning and modeling behaviour on the media. |
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[Critique] Subjectivity |
A persons idea of a virtious action might differ from anothers. |
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[Critique] Nietzsche |
Believed deception and power to be virtuous, things people would typically perceive to be vices of excess. |
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[Critique] Global factors. |
Virtue theory is not culturally aware. |
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[Critique] Summer |
"Morality is in the folkways" |
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[Critique] Aristotle: subjectivity. |
Aristotle does not provide a method of figuring which virtues are true virtues. |
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[Supporter] Aristotle: subjectivity response. |
Virtues differ form city to city. They must be figured out personally otherwise we act on the wishes of society, rather than ourselves. |
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[Critique] Keenan |
"How do we decide what type of virtuous person to become?" ... "loving and committed, or decisive and controlled." |
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[Supporter] Aristotle: Keenan response. |
The decision must be made by the agent and is dependent on his lifestyle |
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[Supporter] Eudaimonia. |
It appeals to human intuition: we all wish to be happy. |
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[Critique] Eudaimonia. |
Is it naive to assume we all pursue happiness? |
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[Critique] Owen Flannagan |
"People find goodness in many different ways" |
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[Critique] Applied virtue |
Virtue theory is impractical when applied to things like war or capital punishment.
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