PHI 2397 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Richard Dawkins, Virtue Ethics, Reciprocal Altruism
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2) justice: temperance (moderation in all things, tolerance, fortitude (moral courage). When you have all four virtues, you have justice. (socrates and plato"s belief) The whole idea of what about myself. Reciprocal altruism is that path of success however, there are still some people who think selfishness is the way. You could say that this is the same thing as eye for an eye however, reciprocal altruism is positive. Whereas we notion eye for an eye to be negative. This is logic (a computer might agree with this) but there"s always been a problem with it (for example, im going to do what someone did to me, this is fair. If someone kills my kids i"m gonna kill theirs). A lot of people that say an eye for an eye will usually call for vengeance. He argued that no this was not what i meant. His argument was naturally do are not selfish.