Cardinal virtues

Virtue ethics is a rather old theory with Chinese origins but is normally associated with the Greeks. Unlike most theories such as consequentialist and deontological where rule, acts, and consequences are most important; virtue ethics mainly emphasize character and being a good or virtuous person. The only rules that are important are the ones that are written by a good person or if they will help a person become virtuous. Virtue ethics asks the questions: How should one live? What is considered…

written by Plato. This text depicts several characters giving their own extemporaneous speeches about Eros. However, the text primarily focuses on Agathon’s and Socrates’s speeches. Agathon suggests that Eros is a young, beautiful god, who has all cardinal virtues. However, Socrates completely disagrees with Agathon. Socrates criticizes Agathon’s speech and then provides his account that Eros is a need in reproduction of beauty, called the ladder of love. I. To start, Agathon begins his…

such as “love’s virtues”(196c) and described how others had “[failed to speak about] the nature of the god himself”(195a). However, Diotima (unveiled by Socrates) demonstrated how while Agathon's speech was “beautiful”(198b), but lacked real philosophical content. Agathon argued Eros is the happiest god because “he is the most beautiful and [the] best”(195b). Agathon described Eros’ different “moral character”(Arete). He began his speech by addressing “love’s [four] virtues”(196c);…

technology in our everyday lives with the expectations that everything will work fine and that we will be kept safe. This dependence highlights one example of the importance of virtues in engineering and how the engineer must take on the duty of looking out for the welfare of the public. I will discuss the integration of virtues into ethics according to Aristotle as well as my development as a student at Texas A&M…

wrote that a commander should stand for virtues of wisdom, sincerity, benevolence, courage, and strictness. Transferring this over to qualities of a president, it means a president should be wise, sincere, benevolent, brave, and strict. It would be ideal for a president to have all of these virtues though it would be unlikely and unrealistic…

Ancient Greeks lives center on their gods, and their daily lives consist of trying to live as piously as possible. Piety is the core moral laws during this time. To live piously is to live in harmony with the gods. It is extremely important that they must please the gods, that to act any other ways, acting impiously, is illegal and will result in punishment. Socrates is one philosopher that lives during this time. Socrates would go about the city, questioning people about their beliefs and…

her title as “Slave”. As a slave, it was very risky to run away from your master because if you were caught and returned, the punishments could range from beatings up to death. Her analysis led to her rebellion, which shows her also undermining the virtue of domesticity because she finds a way where she satisfies herself over her master. Brent also had the help of slaves and other free women close to Dr. Flint. She was able to hide in multiple places such as the closet, storage room, and attic.…

Socrates attaches virtue, good, and morality to justice in a way to make it seem like it is good for its own sake. The entire Republic is made to reason why justice is good for its own sake—that there is something intrinsically good about it. Within book I of the Republic, Socrates and Thrasymachus have come to an agreement that there are certain virtues that allow things to work well for the better, a vice being the opposite and causing…

1) God has placed the desire for happiness in the human heart. The desire for happiness is connected with ethics and morality. All ethical theories insist that ethics is after the good. Plato says that nowhere do we find good, we only find good things. Like beauty; it can be found in things but you cannot find beauty itself. Plato said that reason finds the good that pervades everything. The highest pursuit in life is to contemplate the good. The closest we come to the good is in contemplation.…

most important value/belief in my perspective is being patience. Patience is the level of control one can have on their temper and other things before negativity hits them. It can also be included as a special trait than few people have. Patience is virtue; it’s a type of behavior showing high moral standards in several religions and workplaces. The word origins from Latin word “patientia, from patient- ‘suffering,’ form the verb pati” (Oxford Dictionaries). Patience is one of the factor that…