PHI 1370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Malcolm Gladwell, Nicomachean Ethics, Lawrence Kohlberg
22 Mar 2016
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Chapter 9 virtue ethics and professional regulation. Virtue ethics involves how to live in the world and be happy; very different from other ethics (esp. religious but also utilitarianism and kantism) because they command you to do things that are already set as morally right. Aristotle: recall: was trained as a biologist; the first to categorize species, theorized the rational animal , the signature definition of the human being. If you don"t follow ethics you are not likely to be as happy as you could be: student of plato, metaphysics was one of the main projects of aristotle. Deals with the first principles of things (being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, space) Abstract theory with no basis in reality. Telos the point of life: eudiamonia good spirit ; greek for a state of good indwelling spirit, in a state of being happy, healthy, prosperous, flourishing, living well.
