ethics virtue
Focused on the character of the person rather than the rules
(deontology) or consequences (utilitarianism).
VIRTUE ETHICS
An ethical framework that is concerned with understanding
the good as a matter of developing the virtuous character of
a person.
VIRTUE ETHICS
The two major thinkers of this theory are Ancient Greek
Plato and Aristotle.
•was the first comprehensive and
programmatic study of virtue ethics.
Nicomachean Ethics
are found in our everyday experience. They
are not separate from reality.
Truth and goodness
He believed that the real truth lives in a world of "Forms" or "Ideas".
These Forms are perfect and unchanging. You can't see them or
touch them, but you can understand them with your mind.
Plato
he thought that what we see and experience with our senses,
like the things we see, touch, taste, and hear, are not the real truth.
Plato