ATS2875 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Virtue Ethics, Gluttony, Wage War
3 Aug 2018
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Aristotle: courage be cowardly (have too much fear), other way, to be rash (have too much confidence). Aristotle virtue: all virtues have twin vices. It is hard to miss the target ( the virtue), easy to go astray: seems quite strong to call some vices evil e. g. gluttony, kakos: evil a handful of times. John keeks: need to appeal to concepts of vice and wickedness to account for evil acts, more contemporary philosopher focusing on the individual which is unusual for a contemporary. Glover: part of our human nature, deep urges to hurt people, draws a lot of atrocities and what could explain them to a certain extent. Defi(cid:374)e (cid:455)ourself within a large organisation, narrow your moral universe. Its not differences in peoples character traits that tell us who is likely to do an evil thing or (cid:449)h(cid:455) people did(cid:374)"t.
