221 - GE8: Lesson Proper for Week 10

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• irtue ethics or theory is known as an approach to ethics that emphasizes an individual’s charisma or personality

• instead of the rules themselves

• consequences of the action

• This refers to the classical formulation of virtue ethics.

• “arete,” which means “the virtues”

• “phronesis,” also known as “practical wisdom,

• wisdom ( sophia)

• practical wisdom (phronesis)

• The ethics of care was developed and originated mainly by feminist writers such as Annette Baier in the second half of the 20th century.

• It called for a change in how we view virtue and morality, shifting toward “virtues exemplified by women, such as taking care of others

• This was recently developed by Michael Slote

• “an account of virtue based on our common-sense intuitions about which character traits”

• Virtue ethics is considered and identified as eudaimonism.

• Socrates, as epitomized in Plato’s early dialogues

• virtue is a type of knowledge

• representation of good and evi

• t can be found or discovered in Plato’s “Republic.”

• Aristotle developed the concept of apotheosis in “Nicomachean Ethics” of the 4th century BC

• Aristotle

• eudaimonia is constituted not by honor, power, or even wealth