WWS 370 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Utilitarianism, Capitalism, Aristotle
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Aristotle: the ends never justify the means. Unless your means are just and proper. Aristotle says you need to do just acts in order to be just. Machiavelli says that if your end product is just, then you are just, no matter what you did to get there. Today we are deontological in our ethics. The morality of an action should be based on if it is right or wrong under a series of rules. Example: people can make up their own minds we protect each other"s rights. We take someone"s autonomy and then say respect for that autonomy is deduced from that. When a thing performs its task, it is its virtue. Men must choose the proper means in order to achieve telos. Telos = the end goal that is virtuous. Eudaimonia = happy spirit, something like that. Logos: the functioning of the rational principle. To live a life of reason logos.