PHILOS 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Eudaimonia, Phronesis
1 Nov 2017
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What kind of person should i be? (as opposed to what should i do?) Virtue: relatively xed trait of character, disposition to think, feel, and act in certain ways in certain circumstances. Motivational-behavioural component: primary basis for moral judgement. Happiness as the highest good: human activities aim at some good or end. Highest good/end is: desirable for itself, not desirable for sake of some other good, all other goods desirable for its sake. Moral life aims at good for human beings (eudaemonia) Rationality (capacity to guide ourselves by reason: good of a thing is performing its function well. Doing anything well requires excellence or virtue: happiness is a life of rational activity of the soul in accordance with virtue (if we reason well, we live well and this requires virtue. Agent must: 1: know he is doing virtuous action, 2: decide to do it, 3: act from rm and unchanging character.
