PHI 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Moral Luck, Moral Relativism, Eudaimonia
16 Nov 2016
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Eudaimonia: well-being, flourishing, happiness, living well, being the best kind of person you can be. Moral virtue: character (traits), rationally choose golden mean, two types: moral and intellectual, key virtue being wisdom, governs ethical behavior, does not come from nature but nature gives us tools and capacity to acquire through habituation, Practical wisdom: practically wise, calculate well to promote some good end, capable of deliberation, getting your ends and goals in the right way. Courage: ability to fear threat, confidence in ability to handle, not courage unless for the right reason, do it because it"s right and you want to, Continence: wants it, knows it"s wrong, doesn"t do it. Incontinence: wants it, knows it"s wrong, does it anyway. Situationist critique of virtue ethics: what is it. Princeton divinity school study and what it appears to show about character. Helping for a dime study and what it appears to show about character.
