PHIL 1104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cardinal Virtues
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The greeks believed virtues are central to living a good life. Four cardinal virtues: courage, justice, temperance (self-discipline/self-control, wisdom. Avoid cowardness, recklessness, cheating, and foolishness as they tend to make life worse. Living as virtuous as possible, given who you are and the circumstances you are in, provide you the best life possible. Julia annas"s article making sense of my life as a whole . Determine the now in life by placing it in life as a whole to determine where i want to be. Believed our actions are the units out of which we compose our lives. Directed towards goals; used to achieve something. Means by which you attain your end. Must be good or thought of as good. If they are bad, they are not comprehensible to achieve. The value something has because of what it can do or what it is good for.
