PHL 201 Chapter Notes -Virtue Ethics
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Involves morality, the issue of right and wrong. The study of morality ; the study of the philosophical of the underpinning. Virtue and vice what morality is about. What we have to do if we are going to be just, temperate, courageous, wise. Or the types of things we have to do to be fully human. Its what we have to do if we are going to be fully human. It"s a manner of how to treat other people: only owe, i wouldn"t misuse a horse , i don"t flake a cat because to do so would be inhuman. Not about what it does to the object or human, but what it does/shows about a person. Virtue for the ancients an excuse to beat up on women . By not having sex, by not doing something, absence of action. If you don"t keep your virtue, you are viewed as a bad person or.