Aristotelian ethics

intended to explain and analyze how business ethics class helps the student to understand and realize their values. Ultimately, practicing these values. In the article “Can We Teach Character? An Aristotelian Answer,” the author Edwin M. Hartman applies Aristotle’s view of ethics and his thought of virtues to support his claim that good character is teachable, and business ethics class would have cultivated good moral values to students. I believe that typical ethic course could teach one’s…

of Virtue Ethics begged the question “what sort of person should I be?” (SL, 254) It’s no surprise this question still persists over two thousand years after his death. To this day Aristotelian virtue ethics remains prominent in ethical theories, all this time there have been objections to its theories but there must be something to these ancient ideas. Over the course of this paper I will explain virtue ethics as a whole and present an argument against virtue ethics and why virtue ethics has…

issued, in subsection 2.1 a music industry controversy will be illustrated. Section three discusses the ethical aspect of BitTorrent, in subsection 3.1 a Kantian ethical point of view is given, while in subsection 3.2 and 3.3 a Utilitarian and Aristotelian (respectively) philosophical questions are asked. In section three a global aspect is given which contrast BitTorrent in India and the United States. Finally, section 4 will sum up the article and illustrate the conclusion highlighting all…

and deficiency with regard to some action or emotion. Most importantly, virtue brings upon friendship since virtue is the parent and preserver of friendship and without virtue, friendship cannot exist at all. Aristotle’s aristotelian view on friendship in the Nicomachean Ethics Books 8 & 9 contrasts and compares with Cicero’s eclectic view on friendship in De Amicitia in numerous ways. Aristotle defines friendship as two people wishing for the goodwill of the other with them both being aware of…

boils down to one’s own ethics. There are different forms/views of ethics, such as: consequentialism, duty-based, situation based and virtue ethics. I believe virtue ethics have the biggest impact/correlation to healthcare rights for women. “Virtue ethics is person rather than action based: it looks at the virtue or moral character of the person carrying out an action, rather than at ethical duties and rules, or the consequences of particular actions” (BBC). Virtue ethics would encourage people…

Article Review The Public Administrator as Collaborative Citizen: Three Conceptions. Neale Smith. Public Administration Quarterly 34, PAQ summer 2010, pp. 238-261. Every philosophical thought is first conceptualized before it is operationalized. In “The Public Administrator as Collaborative Citizen: Three Conceptions,” Neale Smith brings to light the three main theories that drive public administration delivery. In the article, Smith identifies three theories—critical theory, pragmatism, and…

Aristotle and Aquinas spoke highly of virtue ethics and each developed their own theories on the topic. Although both philosophers wrote about virtue ethics, their approach was quite different. So, what is virtue ethics? According to Lewis Vaughn it is “a moral theory that focuses on the development of virtuous character”(Vaughn 808). Although both Aquinas and Aristotle had different approaches to virtue ethics, there was a consensus on what virtue ethics ultimately is. In terms of both stances,…

Feminist ethics is a necessary theory to consider because traditional (male) ethics fail to acknowledge virtues that are beyond the focus of culturally masculine ones. By focusing on values of a patriarchal society, traditional ethics not only ignores females as moral beings but also narrows the ways of approaching ethical issues for all. By aiming attention at female values such as “interdependence, community, connection, sharing, emotion, body, trust, absence of hierarchy, nature, immanence,…

Connection between Ethics and Politics The primary concern of politics is to give the description of a government structure and function by describing laws for the citizens to regulate their behavior. It does all this to achieve and bring to recognition the good of the public. Man is hardly a social being alone but also a political being because of the close interdependence between them and the state. Ethics and politics have an intimate relationship considering that both are normative…

Kant’s deontology and Aristotle’s virtue ethics are similar in that they both question one’s intentions when handling issues of morality. Virtue ethics asks that one looks within, while deontology asks that one looks towards rationality and duty. Respect for humanity is essential – deontology showing this respect through requiring that one never treat another as merely a means to an end, but in respect to their means and their existence as ends as well. Virtue ethics requires such respect by way…