IUF 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gluttony, List Of One Tree Hill Characters, Virtue Ethics

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Geological Sciences
• Course: IUF 1000
• Professor: Tiffany Rhynard

Document Summary

Richard taylor, happiness : most people seem to think they know what happiness is, which is unfortunate, for this prevents them from learning. One has no incentive to inquire into what one thinks one already knows: we see false conceptions of happiness in the accumulation of wealth. Aristotle: at the root of all action, is the goal to achieve happiness, happiness=eudaumonia. To be possess with a good demon: virtue ethics. Ethics is based on the science of human action and virtue is an essential componenet. All knowledge is derived from sense experience and we gain knowledge about how to live by looking at other people"s lives. Observe our own felt experience and the experience of others. Fool and wiseman example (putting hand in fire and learning from the other person"s experience) Relates to character; more concerned with the right character than right action. Moral character of the person doing the action.