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What is virtue ethics? |
is a normative ethical theory about the definition and realization of a good life and human excellence. |
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what is human excellence? |
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What is good character? |
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What is good life? |
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What is a virtue? |
An excellent, durable character trait that a person develops over time by (inter)action, reflection and experience, and that enables a person to act and get along with other people in an exemplary way.
EX) courage, benevolence, generosity, temperance |
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Virtues define: |
someone's personality and way of acting. |
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What is arostotle's argument: |
that a good life if a virtuous life. and that virtues usually are the mean between two vices (deficiency and excess) |
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Virtues are not inborn but aquired? |
emotions, desires, and affects are educated over time and transformed into virtues.
It requires: 1. experience and practical wisdom 2. consultation with, and feedback of, others 3. proper societal context |
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Virtues constitute what? |
a stable motivational basis for ethical action. |
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Virtues can change |
hot tempered to even tempered over time |
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What are some business virtues? |
1. integrity, honesty (general) 2. toughness (negotiator) 3. attentiveness (service person) 4. trustworthiness (accountant) 5. loyalty (employee) 6. courage and responsibility (leader) |
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What is the Virtue Test? |
A decision or action consistent with who you are and who you want to be.
consider (the individual) who you are as a a professional or who you are as a company. |
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Examples of the virtue test. |
1. wife want doctor lawyer to disclose information
2. company environmentally friendly and supplier is not |
