PHI 2200C Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Tabula Rasa

• School: St. John's University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 2200C
• Professor: Paul Gaffney

Document Summary

The rock has the natural tendency to go down but with people it"s different because people aren"t naturally good or evil. Actions leads to habits and habits impact your characteristics. Some of the healthy actions which leads to actions are called virtue. Chapter 3: pleasure and pain- test of virtue, this is really a book about pleasure and pain, moral teaching. If you have no ability to get angry, this is not good. If you have deficient anger, you are lethargic- weak, wimp. Even- tempered: the doctrine of virtue is not a doctrine of moderation, courage is not the habit of moderate fear it is the habit of appropriate fear, fear is not intrinsically bad. Rules: always have no fear, always have moderate fear, always have appropriate fear, aristotle rejects the first rule and thinks that the second rule is stupid, the appropriate amount of fear and anger results in a happy life.