PHIL 101- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 30 pages long!)
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Aristotle (384-322) teleology (proper) function virtue excellence soul habit (ethos) mean (not means) When you are excellent you are happy. Virtue theorists- virtue refers to being excellent. Dogs can virtue, trees can have virtue. Virtue is not an action, it is a way that you are. If you do one good deed you are not virtuous. Aristole is avery good example of a virtuous. Aristole was friends with alexander the great. He moves to lesbos because he thought that he was gonna get killed in athens. For a tree it is to provide shade. For a knife is to cut things. For a human is to be happy. Our proper function is to be happy. Proper function is tied to virtue and excellence. The virtue of an excellence knife that it is very sharp. Proper function, viture, and excellence is all tied to teleology. The good: is the purpose of everything. Good is what the virtuous thing does.
