Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Virtue ethics
- Agent centred approach
- Aristotle believed the aim was to reach eudaimonia
- Human flourishing
- Soul in accord with virtue
- Moral virtue are
formed by habit
- Only voluntary actions can virtuous
- Intellectual virtue of
theoria is more
important than moral
virtue because
contemplation is the
highest aspect of the
soul
- Excess and deficiency
- Need to find the golden mean
- Always different depending
on the situation such as if
you are in a war compared to
if you are not
- Justice has no excess
or deficiency
- It applies human values
to everything so animals
are not seen as things of
concern more as objects
to be used in anyway that
you wish to humans.