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| ultimate end or goal of human life? highest good? |
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| The ultimate end or goal of human life is supreme good and happiness |
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| happiness is the full realization of our rationality |
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| 3 types of lives from book 1 |
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| physical pleasure, public honor, life of contemplation |
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| what is the function of man? |
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| an activity of soul in accordance with or implying a rational principle |
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| there are 5 parts: a purposive disposition, lying in a mean, relative to the agent, determined by a rational argument, which means by the argument or rationale that a prudent man would use. |
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| how do you acquire intellectual virtue |
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| how do you acquire moral virtues |
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| it cannot be taught; it is innate and can only be acquired by habituation and exercise |
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| what is the doctrine of the mean? |
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| states that every virtue lies between two extremes. it is relative to us |
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| is it easy to determine the mean? |
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| no, there is only one way to find it |
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| how can one fail rightly to determine the mean? |
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| if they're drawn to the two extremes which lie on it's opposing side |
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| an action that has its origin in the agent who knows and is aware of the relavant particulars concerned in the action. |
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| an action in which the agent acts under compulsion or as a result of ignorance for which he is not responsible. |
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| an action done through ignorance for which the agent feels no pain or regret. |
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| an act where the agent, through no fault of her own, is prevented from knowing the relevant particulars of the act which, had she known, would have resulted in a different choice. NOT BLAMEWORTHY |
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| an act where the agent ought to have been aware of the relevant particulars, but is not due to a state or disposition which she herself has caused. IS BLAMEWORTHY |
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| D is that which can be otherwise; the practical matters that lie in our power. the role of deliveration is to determine the mean relative to the agent. a person can deliberate poorly or good. |
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| responsible for moral virtues? |
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| yes. because a person reaches them through habituation therefore if a person acts immorally then they are constantly acting that way. |
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| in particular it is habituation and it aims at a mean. justice is a state of being capable of doing just acts from choice (habitual state); it looks to the good of the other person first; the voluntary interaction between two persons; concerns the right time, dispositions, amount, etc.; resulting in each party retaining an equal amount before and after interaction. |
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| justice vs. other moral virtues |
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| justice is a state(disposition) and an action(or interaction); it involves two different parties, it is complete moral virtue, and it can be exercised toward another person; justice is regarded as another person's good; justice involves more than one mean. it also leans towards happiness. |
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| just means being lawful or fair (equitable) |
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| prudence must be a true state, reasoned and capable of action with regard to things that are good/bad for man (in the sphere of human good). it is the ability to deliberate rightly about what is good and advantageous for himself. it is a moral virtue |
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| to be concerned with human goods; we hold that it is a function of the prudent man to deliberate well |
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| wisdom is the finished form of knowledge. wisdom must be intuition and scientific knowledge: knowledge being the most precious truth. |
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| responsible if you lack prudence? |
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| as long as a person can reason; be able to deliberate then they are responsible |
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| responsible if person lacks wisdom? |
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| no; because if you are yought you are not required to have wisdom yet; however if you are old enough to have some wisdome then you are held responsible for it |
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