Virtue Ethics

• Who came up with virtue ethics?

  Aristotle
• 'ethics of the average'
• What type of theory is virtue ethics?

  character-based
• What is the final aim?

  eudaemonia - human flourishing
• What does the theory place an emphasis on?

  habitual behaviour
• Name one of the 12 moral virtues

  courage
• What is the vice of deficiency?

  lacking
• what is the vice of excess?

  more than needed
• What is the cardinal virtue?

  Justice - has no excess or deficiency
• Only few will develop these virtues but everyone should strive to achieve this
• What is a virtue? (according to Aristotle)

  A characteristic marked by choice
• What are the two types of virtues?

  Intellectual and moral
• What is the Doctrine of the Mean/Golden Mean?

  the middle point between two vices - moral virtues lie between two extremes
• Excellence of the: non-rational

  the body and the character
• Excellence of the: rational

  practical and theoretical reasoning