PHIL 2550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Insensibility, Shyness, Virtue Ethics

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Dates back to plato (~350 bce) and aristotle (plato"s student) Focuses less on particular acts and more on developing good character. Consequentialism and deontology doesn"t allow for emotions; take an object viewpoint with no feelings for the matter. Plato"s republic is an investigation of 4 virtues: wisdom, justice, courage, moderation. The soul consists of 3 parts: the spirited: anger (courage, the appetitive: hunger, thirst, sexual desire, the rational: (wisdom) Moderation and justice are about the whole soul and have to do with the soul"s good functioning. A chariot consisting of 2 horses (appetitive part and spirited part) and a charioteer (rational part) Moderation: a person whose rational, spiritual and appetitive parts are not in competition with one another. The virtues take time to cultivate (i. e. children cannot be virtuous) The ability to reason is human excellence. Being virtuous involves cultivating dispositions to reason well in all situation.

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