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Meno proposes that virtue is the desire for good things and the power to get them. Socrates points out that this raises a second problem—many people do not recognize evil. [17] The discussion then turns to the question of accounting for the fact that so many people are mistaken about good and evil and take one for the other.
Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (/ ˈ æ l ə s t ər ˈ m æ k ɪ n t aɪər /; born 12 January 1929) is a Scottish-American philosopher who has contributed to moral and political philosophy as well as history of philosophy and theology. [1]
Part of training in practical virtue ethics is to come to see the coincidence of one's enlightened self-interest and the practice of the virtues, so that one is virtuous willingly, gladly, and enthusiastically because one knows that being virtuous is the best thing one can do with oneself. [7]: I
Plato believed that the soul is divided into three parts of desire: Rational, Appetitive, and Spirited. [8] In order to have moral character, we must understand what contributes to our overall good and have our spirited and appetitive desires educated properly, so that they can agree with the guidance provided by the rational part of the soul.
Moral intellectualism or ethical intellectualism is a view in meta-ethics according to which genuine moral knowledge must take the form of arriving at discursive moral judgements about what one should do. [1] One way of understanding this is that doing what is right is a reflection of what any being knows is right. [2]
Aristotle analyzed the golden mean in the Nicomachean Ethics Book II: That virtues of character can be described as means. It was subsequently emphasized in Aristotelian virtue ethics. [1] For example, in the Aristotelian view, courage is a virtue, but if taken to excess would manifest as recklessness, and, in deficiency, cowardice. The middle ...
to do evil to one who, from a like affect, has injured us. Cruelty [10] a desire by which someone is roused to do evil to one whom we love or pity. Timidity [10] a desire to avoid a greater evil, which we fear, by a lesser one. Daring [10] a desire by, which someone is spurred to do something dangerous which one's equals fear to take on themselves
Kantian ethics; Pragmatic ethics; Virtue ethics – describes the character of a moral agent as a driving force for ethical behavior. Aristotelian ethics – the beginning of ethics as a subject, in the form of a systematic study of how individuals should best live. Aristotle believed one's goal should be living well and "eudaimonia", a Greek ...