Can Aristotle’s virtue theory ethics be reformulated as a ‘value theory ethics’?

Workshop # 10, Virtue Theory as Value Theory, Series 11,
This event begins 7.30 pm S'pore & WA time, 11.30 am UK, 6.30 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.