CAS PH 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Stoicism, Bad Life, Consequentialism

• School: Boston University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: CAS PH 150
• Professor: Anderson

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British philosopher, she is a professor at university of arizona. This worry has been the basis of objections that virtue ethics, as a theory, is sel sh or egoistic . Annas regards the implication from virtue ethics to ethical egoism as an objection to virtue. In other words, she believes that ethical egoism is false, so if virtue ethics implies ethical. For the sake of understanding her arguments we will take up this point of view; but remember that someone who is an ethical egoist and a virtue theorist would not see a problem where. Annas is a virtue ethicist who rejects egoism. She wants to defend the objection that virtue. The challenge is to show that virtue ethics is not a kind of ethical egoism. Her problem stems from the very basic thought that ethics is fundamentally about the good of others, not my good.