More quotes… "Since virtue is concerned with passions and actions, and on voluntary passions and actions praise and blame are bestowed, on those that are involuntary pardon, and sometimes also pity, to distinguish the voluntary and the involuntary is presumable necessary for those who are studying the nature of virtue, and useful also for legislators [...]
More quotes for my students. Melden, A. I. (1967). Ethical theories; a book of readings (2d ed.). Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,: Prentice-Hall. "Intellectual virtue in the main owes both its birth and its growth to teaching (for which reason it requires experience and time), while moral virtue comes about as a result of habit, whence also [...]
Quotes for my students studying virtue ethics. Melden, A. I. (1967). Ethical theories; a book of readings (2d ed.). Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,: Prentice-Hall. Excerpts from Aristotle’s The Nichomachean Ethics "Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly [...]
Another blurb for my students regarding M2A1. Remember that when we are working within virtue ethics, virtues are moral values. This is not necessarily the case in other moral theories. Do they come into conflict? This is somewhat of a debate in the academic literature. Traditionally Aristotle held that they cannot come into conflict because [...]
Philosophy web-courses should contain a warning: Danger Brain My Explode. Invest in coffee, aspirin and find a hobby to relieve pressure. A good beginning for Aristotle Virtue Ethics: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics/ Some semi-random thoughts as I read through student posts… Acting “Out of character” sounds like something we would hear with respect to a virtue ethics. [...]