B A 300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Virtue Ethics, Ethical Egoism, Corporate Social Responsibility
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Virtue ethics - choices and actions are only part of ethics. Ethics - sometimes thought to be about making the right choice or performing the right action. Character - emotional and intellectual dispositions, characteristics, and sensibilities that give shape to what people are like and explains the underlying reasons for why they act as they do. Emphasizes not merely the assessments of acts as right or wrong but people as ethical or unethical base don having good or bad character. Virtue ethics - idea that ethics is about having virtue. Debate the qualities that define and differentiate virtuous and vicious character. Virtue - quality of having a good character. Vice - quality of having a bad character. Eudaimonisitic theories - goal orotund or teleological approaches to ethics that focus their study on how to cultivate virtues to achieve the end of a well-lived life. Often include traits such as honesty, kindness, temperance, loyalty, courage, tolerance, and forgiveness.
