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
"Can virtue be taught?"
Two = critical
"Why be virtuous?"
"ad hominem", what does that mean in context with virtue ethics?
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.
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Can we teach people to be honest, trustworthy, loyal and compassionate according to the pyschological egoist perspective?
Can we teach people to be honest, trustworthy, loyal and compassionate according to the virtue ethics perspective?
A business advertises dangerous products to children in hopes of increasing their profit.
How would virtue ethics approach the individual doing this?
The person who wills to subject children to marketing practices that they are unwilling to accept for their own children.
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