PP110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Alasdair Macintyre, Virtue Ethics, Lawrence Kohlberg
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Alasdair macintyre: modern ethics focuses too much on conflicting rules and principles. Virtue ethics: the ancient greek philosopher aristotle made this his cornerstone, humans can be happy only if they act as humans are specifically, because only humans can reason, humans are meant to act with meant to act reason. Mutual liking between friends or family: eros intensely passionate attraction. Between a person, or even: agape the love god has for people or the love a christian has for all human beings. Sake: problems, emotion view, love is an emotion, not a relationship, union view, love is a union. Philosophers in the past have claimed that men and women have different ethics. Male philosophers say women"s ethics are inferior to men. They also say that women"s morality is equal to or superior to those of men. Female philosophers say men and women do indeed have different ethics.
