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Aristotelian Virtue Ethics: Foundations and Character

11th Grade · UK A-Level

7 lessons

Goal

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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  1. Telos and the Good: Aristotle's Teleological WorldviewUp next
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  4. Moral Virtue as Character Dispositions and HabituationNot started yet
  5. The Doctrine of the Mean and Feeling at the Right TimesNot started yet
  6. Phronesis: Practical Wisdom and Moral DeliberationYou are here
  7. Voluntary, Involuntary, and Non-Voluntary ActionsNot started yet
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Learning standards covered

gbPHIL-8.2General Certificate of Education Advanced Level (UK A-Level) · Philosophy · 11th Grade

normative 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

gbPHIL-2.1General Certificate of Education Advanced Level (UK A-Level) · Philosophy · 11th Grade

understand 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

gbPHIL-2.2General Certificate of Education Advanced Level (UK A-Level) · Philosophy · 11th Grade

understand the main philosophical arguments within topics, through the works of philosophers, and articulate those arguments in appropriate forms, correctly, clearly and precisely