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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / a. Nature of virtue
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By 'areté' Socrates means just what we mean by moral virtue [Vlastos on Socrates]
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / b. Basis of virtue
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First morality is force, then custom, then acceptance, then instinct, then a pleasure - and finally 'virtue' [Nietzsche]
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / d. Virtue theory critique
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You are mastered by your own virtues, but you must master them, and turn them into tools [Nietzsche]
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / c. Motivation for virtue
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The 'good' man does the moral thing as if by nature, easily and gladly, after a long inheritance [Nietzsche]
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / d. Teaching virtue
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Socrates is torn between intellectual virtue, which is united and teachable, and natural virtue, which isn't [PG on Socrates]
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Socrates agrees that virtue is teachable, but then denies that there are teachers [Socrates, by MacIntyre]
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character
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We should ask what sort of people we want to be [Socrates]
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / j. Unity of virtue
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Socrates believed that basically there is only one virtue, the power of right judgement [Socrates, by Williams,B]
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues
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Socrates made the civic values of justice and friendship paramount [Socrates, by Grayling]
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All societies of good men give a priority to gratitude [Nietzsche]
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / c. Justice
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Justice (fairness) originates among roughly equal powers (as the Melian dialogues show) [Nietzsche]
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / d. Courage
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Courage is scientific knowledge [Socrates, by Aristotle]
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / f. Compassion
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Apart from philosophers, most people rightly have a low estimate of pity [Nietzsche]
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Pity consoles those who suffer, because they see that they still have the power to hurt [Nietzsche]
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / d. Friendship
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Many people are better at having good friends than being a good friend [Nietzsche]
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Women can be friends with men, but only some physical antipathy will maintain it [Nietzsche]
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23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism
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In Homer it is the contemptible person, not the harmful person, who is bad [Nietzsche]
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23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism
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Socrates emphasises that the knower is an existing individual, with existence his main task [Socrates, by Kierkegaard]
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We could live more naturally, relishing the spectacle, and not thinking we are special [Nietzsche]
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23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 4. Boredom
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People do not experience boredom if they have never learned to work properly [Nietzsche]
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23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 5. Existence-Essence
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Over huge periods of time human character would change endlessly [Nietzsche]
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