| Self-Inventory: Virtue Ethics |
"To do good or evil always means to give or withhold from a person" (Josef Pieper, The Four Cardinal Virtues, Nortre Dame,Page 58).
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"To do good or evil always means to give or withhold from a person" (Josef Pieper, The Four Cardinal Virtues, Nortre Dame,Page 58). |
Let us begin our study of Virtue Ethics with a self-evaluation to better understand our ethical stance.
Please check the column that most reflects your views:
1 disagree strongly; 2 disagree; 3 neutral; 4 agree; 5 strongly agree
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Description |
| Having developed good habits/virtues helps us act ethically in any given situation. | |||||
| Living a virtuous life, the good life, always brings pleasure in the long run. | |||||
| The happiest man is the man who lives the virtuous life. | |||||
| True happiness is a by-product of acting and living well. | |||||
| The moral person will more likely be the one who has developed virtues rather than the one who has merely read a couple of books on ethics. | |||||
| The individual that finds it difficult to go to battle but goes anyway, is less courageous than the individual who goes fearlessly into battle . | |||||
| The individual that finds it difficult to ask a classmate for a date, but does so anyway , is less courageous than the individual who nonchalantly and fearlessly asks the other for a date. | |||||
| TOTAL POINTS |
| 27-35 | Die Hard Aristotelian Virtue Ethicist. You buy the concept . |
| 18-26 | Extreme Aristotelian Virtue Ethicist |
| 9-17 | Straddles the fence |
| 1-8 | A non-believer or critic as to the "virtues" of virtue ethics |
Aristotle says man can only achieve happiness by using all his abilities and capabilities.
Aristotle says three are three kinds of happiness:
1. enjoyment, pleasure
2. pleasure as a free & responsible citizen
3. happiness as a thinker
( taken from Sophie's World, page 115 Ethics)