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#virtue-ethics
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If virtue ethics says ‘do what the virtuous person would do’, how does a beginner use that?
I coached rugby to under-16s for most of my working life and I am now reading Aristotle in retirement, slowly, with a pencil. Something is bothering me and I suspect it is a beginner's worry, so forgive me. The summaries I have…
Started by Gerrit Venter5 replies169 views -
Ethical theories explained: a beginner’s guide to how philosophers judge right and wrong
Consequences, duties, character, contracts, care, roles and community: what each theory tells you to look at, and why they agree more often than you'd think.
Started by Rowena Abellana0 replies62 views -
Traditions that disagree about the self agree about how to live, so ethics can do without metaphysics
I taught ethics in a Gymnasium for years, and the comparison that always woke my students up was this one. Put the great traditions side by side on what a person is, and they disagree completely: an immortal soul, an eternal self…
Started by Henrike Vogel6 replies236 views