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Mar 30, 2023 · Defining Aristotle’s virtue ethics. Aristotle (384–322 BCE) is one of the most influential philosophers in history, and he turned his gaze to a dizzying range of subjects: including metaphysics, politics, the arts, biology, and more. When it comes to human behavior and morality, Aristotle is known for his “virtue ethics” — an ethical ...
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May 1, 2001 · Aristotle describes ethical virtue as a “ hexis ” (“state” “condition” “disposition”)—a tendency or disposition, induced by our habits, to have appropriate feelings (1105b25–6). Defective states of character are hexeis (plural of hexis) as well, but they are tendencies to have inappropriate feelings.
Jul 18, 2003 · Virtue ethics is currently one of three major approaches in normative ethics. It may, initially, be identified as the one that emphasizes the virtues, or moral character, in contrast to the approach that emphasizes duties or rules (deontology) or that emphasizes the consequences of actions (consequentialism). Suppose it is obvious that someone ...
Nov 14, 2024 · Virtue ethics, Approach to ethics that takes the notion of virtue (often conceived as excellence) as fundamental. Virtue ethics is primarily concerned with traits of character that are essential to human flourishing, not with the enumeration of duties. It falls somewhat outside the traditional.
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Apr 12, 2022 · Aristotle’s answer was that “ eudaimonia ” was the goal or telos of human life. Eudaimonia is a Greek word that doesn’t have a direct translation in English. Sometimes it is translated simply as happiness, but this can be misleading and a closer translation would be “flourishing” or perhaps “well-being”.
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Aristotelian Virtue Ethics Introduction. Aristotle (384–322 BC) was a scholar in disciplines such as ethics, metaphysics, biology and botany, among others. It is fitting, therefore, that his moral philosophy is based around assessing the broad characters of human beings rather than assessing singular acts in isolation.
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It is commonly thought that virtues, according to Aristotle, are habits and that the good life is a life of mindless routine. These interpretations of Aristotle’s ethics are the result of imprecise translations from the ancient Greek text. Aristotle uses the word hexis to denote moral virtue. But the word does not merely mean passive habituation.
