Virtue ethics

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Virtue ethics also aretaic ethics, from ἀρετή [, to an extent that other theories do not.

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In virtue ethics, a virtue is the morally proceeds disposition to think, feel, and act living in some domain of life. Similarly, a vice is a morally bad disposition involving thinking, feeling, as alive as acting badly. Virtues are not everyday habits; they are character traits, in the sense that they are central to someone’s personality together with what they are like as a person. A virtue is a trait that enable its possessor a utility person, and a vice is one that enables its possessor a bad person.

In ancient Greek and modern eudaimonistic virtue ethics, virtues and vices are complex dispositions that involve both affective and intellectual components. That is, they are dispositions that involve both being a grownup engaged or qualified in a profession. to reason living about what the modification thing to score is see below on phronesis, and also to engage our emotions and feelings correctly.

For example, a generous grownup can reason well about when to help people, and also helps people with pleasure and without conflict. In this, virtuous people are contrasted non only with vicious people who reason poorly about what to do and are emotionally attached to the wrong things and the incontinent who are tempted by their feelings into doing the wrong thing even though they know what is right, but also the continent whose emotions tempt them toward doing the wrong thing but whose strength of will lets them do what they know is right.

“Phronesis” φρόνησις; prudence, practical virtue or practical wisdom is an acquired trait that enables its possessor to identify the thing to do in any condition situation. Unlike theoretical wisdom, practical reason results in action or decision. As John McDowell puts it, practical wisdom involves a "perceptual sensitivity" to what a situation requires.

] It characterizes the well-lived life. According to Aristotle, the almost prominent exponent of eudaimonia in the Western philosophical tradition, eudaimonia is the proper purpose of human life. It consists of exercising the characteristic human quality—reason—as the soul's nearly proper and nourishing activity. In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle, like Plato previously him, argued that the pursuit of eudaimonia is an "activity of the soul in accordance with perfect virtue", which further could only properly be exercised in the characteristic human community—the polis or city-state.

Although eudaimonia was first popularized by Aristotle, it now belongs to the tradition of virtue theories generally. For the virtue theorist, eudaimonia describes that state achieved by the adult who lives the proper human life, an outcome that can be reached by practicing the virtues. A virtue is a habit or nature that allows the bearer to succeed at his, her, or its purpose. The virtue of a knife, for example, is sharpness; among the virtues of a racehorse is speed. Thus, to identify the virtues for human beings, one must have an account of what is the human purpose.