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Moral Virtue as Character Dispositions and Habituation
Explain moral virtues (arete) as stable dispositions (hexeis) of character developed through practice and habituation.
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Aristotelian Virtue Ethics: Foundations and Character
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Master Aristotle's core teleological framework, including eudaimonia, the function argument, moral habituation, the doctrine of the mean, and moral responsibility.
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PHIL-8.2General Certificate of Education Advanced Level (UK A-Level) · Philosophy · 11th Gradenormative ethics: utilitarianism (act and rule; hedonist and preference forms); Kantian deontological ethics and Aristotelian virtue ethics, including the definitions of good/bad/right/wrong within each approach and similarities/differences across approaches
PHIL-2.1General Certificate of Education Advanced Level (UK A-Level) · Philosophy · 11th Gradeunderstand the ways in which philosophers have analysed the core concepts of philosophy, and be able to identify how subtle differences in analyses can have wider impacts on philosophical arguments
PHIL-2.2General Certificate of Education Advanced Level (UK A-Level) · Philosophy · 11th Gradeunderstand the main philosophical arguments within topics, through the works of philosophers, and articulate those arguments in appropriate forms, correctly, clearly and precisely