PHIL 2075 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Filial Piety, Virtue Ethics, Junzi
28 Nov 2018
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Eastern philo: ve dates back to siddhartha gautama (buddha) Common virtues: compassion, wisdom, righteousness, courage, trustworthiness, filial piety how shun , propriety state of conforming to social standards and expectations. End goal: eudaimonia the good life: need to know what is good. Not how should i live morally but rather, what can i do to achieve eudaimonia : in order to achieve this goal, we must live virtuously. Excellences of character: exemplary people; something is as good as it could be, someone can be virtuous but he or she is not necessarily the best in the areas that he/she could be. Virtues : virtue-as-excellence = character trait, ethike arete = excellent in character, excellent character traits involve both actions and feelings, not merely one or the other, reason + emotions disposition action. Vs do not do what is right simply because it is the right thing: continence vs. virtue, it is a character trait.
