Exam 7: Virtue Ethics: Be a Good Person

Some argue against virtue ethics by pointing out that a person may possess all the proper virtues and still be unable to tell right from wrong actions.

Generally,in virtue ethics,moral obligations are derived from:

There is general agreement among ethicists that a gap exists between the moral thinking styles of men and women.

Caring is a vital and inescapable part of the moral life.

Aristotle argues that the greatest good for humans is eudaimonia,which means:

One criticism of virtue ethics is that it is built on a foundation of circular reasoning,in which the right action is both defined by,and itself defines,the virtuous person.

Virtue ethics is a theory of morality that:

Which of the following is NOT true about virtue ethicists?

Contemporary virtue ethicists maintain that a full-blown ethics must take into account:

Virtue ethics puts primary emphasis on being a good person and living a good life.

Aristotle insists that there must be room in morality for:

Virtue theorists believe that right action is unimportant.

Virtue theorists and Kantian theorists agree that we must always act out of a sense of duty,not from such unstable motivations as compassion or loyalty.

Critics of virtue ethics claim that appeals to virtues or virtuous character without reference to principles of duty cannot give us any useful guidance in deciding what to do.

Most virtue ethicists look not to moral principles for guidance but to moral exemplars such as Socrates and Gandhi.

Aristotle's notion of a moral virtue is what he calls:

Aristotle says that the moral life consists not in following moral rules that stipulate right actions,but in: