Virtue Ethics
This man is the founder of virtue ethics
Who is Aristotle?
"Telos" means this.
What is "goal" or "purpose"?
This founder of utilitarianism had his skeleton (including his skull) preserved for display at the University College London.
Who is Jeremy Bentham?
The other name for utilitarianism, which is often an umbrella term, is this.
What is consequentialism?
This is the definition of values.
What is a person's principles or standards of behavior; one's judgment of what is important in life.
This is the definition of virtue.
What is the qualities that make a person good or bad?
What is "flourishing"?
This man, often given credit for co-founding utilitarianism, was an intellect who learned Greek and Latin as a little boy.
Who is John Stuart Mill?
What is it is difficult to determine the results of our actions before we take them. We might think something will happen that does not end up happening.
This is the definition of ethics.
What is moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity.
This term is used to describe having a virtue in the exact right amount.
What is the "(golden) mean"?
Describe one of the challenges with/critical questions asked about virtue ethics.
What is "How do we know when someone has the exact right amount of a virtue"?
These are the terms Bentham used to describe units of happiness and sadness.
What are "hedons" and "dolors"?
Describe the challenge with utilitarianism that deals with the calculation of happiness and pain.
What is sometimes the result/s of the calculation of happiness and pain doesn't seem/right.
This is why understanding values is important for global studies.
What is values affect action - understanding them can help us better understand a culture, a political movement, and the behaviors of different entities?
These are two terms Aristotle uses to describe the extreme ends of the virtues "seesaw."
What are excesses and deficiencies?
This is the length of the process of refining values.
What is a lifelong process?
Describe the "greatest happiness principle."
What is "whatever brings the most amount of people the most happiness"?
If a result of calculating happiness and pain doesn't seem right, this is what a utilitarian might tell you.
What is "you have done the calculation wrong (you are missing some factor/s) and you should recalculate."
This leader was faced with the decision to save thousands of lives during WWII by giving the Nazis wrong intel about bomb sites (name and country)
Who is Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain?
What is "aptitude, habituation, and (wise) teaching?
This is the Greek word for flourishing.
What are the seven scales of the greatest happiness principle?
What are: intensity, duration, certainty, propinquity, fecundity, purity, extent?
Bernard Williams, a British philosopher and critic of utilitarianism, used this word to describe how "each of us is specifically responsible for what he does, rather than for what other people do."
What is "integrity" (meaning "wholeness" or "undividedness" not "honesty and moral uprightness")?
This woman philosopher, a contemporary of Aristotelian ethics, is credited with inventing the Trolley Problem (Classic).
Who was Philippa Foot?