Second Lecture

6 important questions on Second Lecture

What are the two branches of critism about Virtue Ethics in the book?

Plato mentioned one of them

One = practical

"Can virtue be taught?"  

Two = critical

"Why be virtuous?"

"ad hominem", what does that mean in context with virtue ethics?

Reaction or argument directed against a person!

Name calling! 

This is what virtue ethics say we are doing when we don't give justification or reasoning as to why we should be following good virtues.

We call the lazy and selfish names.

What did the textbook say about the term psychological egoism?

This relates to the Bible.

Humans are, by nature, selfish
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Can we teach people to be honest, trustworthy, loyal and compassionate according to the pyschological egoist perspective?

No, according to Egoism it is impossible

Can we teach people to be honest, trustworthy, loyal and compassionate according to the virtue ethics perspective?

Yes, virtue ethics would look to education, psychology and organizational behaviour to gain insight to teach virtue

A business advertises dangerous products to children in hopes of increasing their profit.

How would virtue ethics approach the individual doing this?

Virtue ethics looks at the type of person who is able to disassociate their own values from their work.

The person who wills to subject children to marketing practices that they are unwilling to accept for their own children.

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