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This group is for people with some background in philosophy who want to explore new ideas about human existence that focus on the concepts of consciousness and value as key to resolving the enigma of life. Yet everyone is welcome, interested inquirers, avid readers, outliers, undergraduates and professors of philosophy alike.
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Can Aristotle’s virtue theory ethics be reformulated as a ‘value theory ethics’?
·OnlineOnlineWorkshop # 17, Virtue Theory, Series 12, (S11,10)
This event begins 7.30 pm S'pore & WA time, 12.30 pm UK, 7.30 am NY.
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THIS WEEK: Aristotle’s virtue theory accommodates modern ethical views about morality as character and disposition, instead of requiring a Kantian Will, directed by reason. Yet virtue theory has many weaknesses, such as an inability to explain motivation, minimal appreciation of the fact-value and is-ought distinctions, and cultural relativity in its virtues like courage, truthfulness and modesty. Can we resolve these problems without discarding the benefits of virtue theory by replacing virtues with ‘value-states’ like self-esteem and self-respect, to produce a ‘value theory ethics’? Reading: The Pursuit of Value, Ch. 4, Scn. vii.
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