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Virtue
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A behaviour showing high moral standards, so a virtuous person would live excellently.
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Virtue Ethics 3 main points
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- How to be a good person in general, rather than assessing the right or wrong action in each situation
- A right act is the action a virtuous person would do
- If everyone had virtues then rules would not be needed
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Eudamonia
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This is to be content, fulfilled and the best version of oneself’s ability and potential, not to be excessively happy at all times
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Four Cardinal Virtues
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- Prudence = having the wisdom to know when and how to act
- Justice = knowing what is right and what is wrong
- Fortitude = standing your ground and to be brave and strong
- Temperance = managing your emotions calmly and sensibly
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Golden Mean
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To not be an excessive level of a virtue, or a deficient level either, but displaying the right amount at the right place and time, not too much or too little
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Drawbacks of Virtue Ethics
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- If everyone lived sensibly and calmly, we would have a safe life but no extraordinary, out-of-the-box, staggering breakthroughs would happen
- Some of the Cardinal Virtues are quite aged (since they were developed when Aristotle was alive around 300s BCE), so shouldn’t our views on a ‘virtuous life’ be more modern and relevant to us now?
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Who developed Virtue Ethics?
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Aristotle
