Virtue

In Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography, he explains his thirteen virtues that he has observed to achieve perfection. He believes that in order to achieve perfection in all aspects of life, you must follow a strict lifestyle that adapts to the thirteen virtues he created. During the three weeks, I followed the cleanliness, silence, and temperance virtues. After experiencing the virtues for three weeks, I realized how I needed to change how I was living. During the first week of the examination…

Based on Benjamin Franklin’s chart of 13 virtues, I feel I need improvement in temperance. My failure to master this particular virtue throughout my experiment demonstrates the difficulty to overcome a fault that has become a habit. In addition to an increased dedication to my concentration and health, life without this flaw would teach me to differentiate between my wants and needs. The temptation to eat unhealthy food has became a natural desire that leaves me feeling terrible after. For…

This paper will critically assess the virtue ethicist account, arguing for the notion that there is no more to moral action than abiding by certain rules or principles. This conclusion is reached through a consideration of various issues, including the theory’s psychological requirements, it’s inability to provide clear action-guidance, and the cultural and temporal relativity of virtuousness. Virtue ethicists maintain that an action is morally right if it is what a virtuous person would do in…

Virtue theory was being used to better develop the understanding of virtue ethics and the use of the highest goods. Firstly, Aristotle had spilt the use of virtue ethics into three different categories. The three different categories were split into the theoretical, practical, and the productivity sciences. The theoretical sciences main idea was to “discover truths”; the practical science was the “performance of actions”, whereas the productive science was “the goal of making objects.” Instead…

In The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli’s understanding of virtue and effective rule emphasizes the maintenance of political power and the disregard for morality, differing from the ideology of the classic political philosophers. Machiavelli’s concept of virtue is centered around the glorification of a ruler, facilitated by behavioural traits such as bravery, cleverness, deceptiveness, and ruthlessness. Effective rule requires these attributes, as the successful application of these characteristics…

Founded by Aristotle, Virtue Ethics does not look at an action (what we do), in and of itself; instead, it studies whether the person acting is good and in what ways (who we are). It is only through our disposition for virtue that we can achieve eudaimonia - happiness. It is important to remember that in Virtue Ethics a person can do the right thing with the wrong motives and not be considered virtuous. Aristotle believed that virtues were the highest qualities of humanity. Virtues ethics…

Virtue ethics has been faced obstacles with competing with the deontology and utilitarianism. Moreover, social psychology’s situationalist argues against virtue ethics from the fact that moral character is not consistent to all the situations that a person has. Virtue ethics is a normative ethics that focuses on virtues to guide a situation. In contrast, situationist psychology considers this to be committing the fundamental attribution error. In this essay, I will be discussing the objections…

A central theme in Plato’s The Meno is virtue. It is approached through posing two questions: How does one acquire virtue? And what exactly is virtue? Meno poses the question “can virtue be taught?” (70a) Meno’s goal is to understand how one can acquire virtue, but Socrates inquires as to what virtue is. Meno attempts a few definitions of virtue, which Socrates deems inaccurate through the usage of the elenchus, where he dissects each suggestion to show Meno that it does not hold all the…

will discuss why Virtue Ethics is not a plausible moral theory because it does not lend real nor unique guidance. I will first present background information regarding the view under discussion, then present an argument illustrating a large flaw in Virtue Ethics, offer a possible objection to this argument, and finally, refute this objection with a counterargument. To understand what Virtue Ethics is, one must first have some idea about what a virtue is. In very simple terms, a virtue is a…

Aristotle firstly argues that virtue consists of intellectual and moral virtue. Intellectual virtue is teachable and can be obtained through time and experience; while moral virtue forms through habituation and constant practice. Aristotle states that moral virtue cannot form in man by nature since everything made by nature fails to change to another side by habituation. He concludes that rather than born to be moral or immoral, people have the capacity to be potentially virtue through…