PPT-Aristotle on virtue Michael Lacewing

enquiriesalevelphilosophycouk Michael Lacewing The good What is the good for human beings What is it that we are aiming at What would provide a successful fulfilling good life. Starter – Disentanglement – identify the parts that are or might be . Aristotilean. .. Reading – Puzzle of Ethics p34-35. Higher Reading – . MacIntyre. p94. Bring this next lesson . LO s . To recap knowledge about the life and works of Aristotle. Starter – reminder of the doctrine of the mean, vice, virtues and deficiencies. Ext – A few examples. HWK – Michael . Slote. article. LO s . To deepen understanding of the traditional formulation of virtue ethics including . Aristotle’s Function Argument. To be good is to function well.. The function of something is whatever distinguishes it from other things. . Humans are distinguished from other things by our ability to act rationally.. Week Five: Aristotle. Aristotle. Quick Recap of Kant. Motive of duty and the Categorical Imperative. Axe-wielding maniac. Optimistic about human capacity. ‘Inhuman’/’cold’. Aristotle. Mill and Kant – Action based ethics. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. (c) Michael Lacewing. Cognitivism. . and moral realism. What are we doing when we. make moral judgments?. Cognitivism: moral judgments, e.g. ‘Murder is wrong’. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. © Michael Lacewing. Am I a brain in a vat?. Knowledge is not belief (even true belief). Are my reasons for my beliefs sufficient for knowledge?. Maybe all my experiences are fed to me by a supercomputer. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. © Michael Lacewing. Stealing. Steal: . to take someone else’s property with no intention of returning it and without their permission (or without the legal right to do so. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. © Michael Lacewing. Metaethics. What is morality, philosophical speaking?. Can ethical claims be objectively true or false?. Are moral properties part of reality?. Cognitivism: moral judgments, e.g. ‘Murder is wrong’. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. © Michael Lacewing. Idealism. Idealism: everything that exists is a mind or dependent on a . mind. Berkeley: . to . be is to be perceived (or to perceive): . esse est percipi . Michael Lacewing. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. (c) Michael Lacewing. The good. ‘What is the good for human beings?’ . What is it that we are aiming at?. What. would provide a successful, fulfilling, good life?. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. © Michael Lacewing. Substance and properties. A substance is an entity, a thing, that does not depend on another entity for its continued existence. . It has ‘ontological independence’. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. © Michael Lacewing. Substance and properties. A substance is an entity, a thing, that does not depend on another entity for its continued existence. . It has ‘ontological independence’. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. (c) Michael Lacewing. N. on. -. cognitivism and anti-realism. What are we doing when we. make moral judgments?. Non. -cognitivism: moral judgments. Do not aim to describe the world. Good life Final end Rational. . Function Flourishing . . Eudaimonia. Virtues Doctrine of the mean Vices . 1. What are the vices for each of the following virtues? . Recap – The Virtues.