PHILOS 25A Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Intellectual Virtue, Moral Responsibility
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3 pics on phone (summary from last lecture) (pic 1) Virtue of character (this is a placeholder, does not answer the question of why it makes it virtuous?) Coward too much fear, deficiency in withstanding fear. Courage- right amount of fear, mean state enables making the right choices in situations of fear: the right quantity is not a description. Too little fear rash attitude, excess in withstanding fear. It depends on the situation; you cant access these without intellectual virtue. Affective domain: fear (a sort of pain) for one"s own life. The doctrine for the mean does not make aristotle"s theory of the virtues o f character purely quantitative: Further condition of virtue beyond avoiding excess of pleasure and pain: Deciding to act in a criterion its own sake because it is the right way to act in these circumstances. 2 and 3 require the exercise of intellectual virtues.
