PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Good Life, Eudaimonia, Consequentialism

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 100
• Professor: Brock Rough

Document Summary

Happiness is the end at which we all aim. Happiness: the activity of the soul in accordance with perfect virtue. Rather: what traits makes someone a good person. Unlike consequentialism, there is much more going on than simply acts and their consequences. Not just actions, but emotions, desires, values, attitudes, interests. Generous person: acts generous, but also: Pleased to hear when others are generous. Virtue: a character trait that would be good for anyone to have habitually. Examples: compassion, dependability, friendliness, honesty, generosity, loyalty, patience, politeness, thoughtfulness, tolerance, self discipline, self reliance. Aristotle: a virtue is a means by reference of two vices . Important virtues: eudaimonia (flourishing, those who help you flourish as a person, those which help the community flourish. Not each person needs all the same virtues. Aristotle: some virtues needed by all people at all times. Reasons are connected to virtue and vice (what makes things flourish, or not flourish)