PHIL 163 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Virtue Ethics
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Applying virtue ethics to our treatment of animals. Utilitarianists do not prioritize any sentient beings. Have to do as much work as you can, but how can one do that. Think on how to structure life, but view as a contient or a virtue ethicist in everyday life. Consequencelism right and wrong actions depend on the consequences that follow. Live life in a way that is compatible for everyone. Can"t ethically treat a person as a means. When you build relationship[s with each other, you began to have extra obligations to them. Equal consideration of interests might mean to place more attention to those with more interests. Virtue ethicists reject the idea the morality is the idea of creating a single, unified ideal of morality. Morality depends on a complex amount of features. Reject thinking of things in terms of moral status.
