VE

• Summary

  Aristotle’s approval of scientific research.

  · His emphasis on the development of useful knowledge.

  · The compassion shown to humans who might survive through organ transplants.

  · The callousness to animals by judging that their lives are expendable.

  · The callousness shown towards those in society who are distressed at the prospect of using animals in this way.
• Its main emphasis is on the development of a virtuous character, which brings together all the characteristics of being human.

  · It could be argued that virtues are not exclusively about how we treat each other and do apply also to other animal species?

  · If they apply to other animal species, the question of how a virtuous person would act consistently with regard to the issues we have discussed is raised.

  · You can certainly make the case that we ought to behave in a virtuous way towards animals too.