PHIL 1000 Lecture Notes - Cardinal Virtues, Virtue Ethics, Primum Non Nocere
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Golden rule: assumes that people by nature don"t like dishonesty, being robbed or having their life imperiled. It requires people to examine the consequences and implications of their actions. Normative systems provide more depth and a wider range of principles than a single simple statement. Believed all things should have a proper function, function of humans is faculty of reason. If function is performed well, there will be satisfaction and happiness called eudemonia. No after life, reward comes from the satisfaction of fulfilling the purpose for which you were designed. No guidelines for moral action, a virtuous person will automatically choose the right thing. Amount of whatever virtue is known by virtuous person based on research and experience. Apparently however women cannot be virtuous because they lack the ability to reason: thomistic ethics (aquinas) : Based ethical system on aristotle"s concepts of human rationality, purpose and eudemonia. Argued that purpose of humans it to return to god.
