PHIL 1165 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Virtue Ethics, Fetus
18 Oct 2016
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Virtue theory, works in contrary to coming up with clever arguments to justify the things that. Moral and social problems in healthcare we do and why we do them: hursthouse i. ii. Does not stand behind the idea that the virtue theory approach is right but rather stands to show how the theory works. An action is right if a virtuous agent would do the same action: a virtuous agent is one who has and exercises virtues and calls for moral wisdom : this must be acquired through experience, socrates i. Every virtue generates a positive instruction and every vice has a prohibition: the importance of experience. Comes down to the familiarity of the subtleties of virtues i: must live through encounters to speak upon different morals and values e. In regard to women"s rights: whether or not women have total and complete rights to their bodies ii.
