Assignment: Happiness and the Virtues
Assignment: Happiness and the Virtues
Assignment: Happiness and the Virtues
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Topic: Happiness and the Virtues Please respond to the following:
From above reading Kants essay, debate whether it is possible to envy others without begrudging their
View the video titled Ethical Theory: Aristotles Virtue Ethics, Solitary Confinement, and Supererogatory Actions on YouTube video, (5 min 11 s), located at . Be prepared to discuss.
Q1. From the Ethical Theory video in Aristotles essay, analyze Aristotles claim that reason determines right action. Discuss how this process occurs and how it is related to the general principle that virtuous action is a mean between extremes. Then, discuss the prisoners views about isolation. Discuss your agreement or disagreement with Aristotles view of happiness. Provide reasons and examples to support your view.
Q2. Debate It: Take a position for or against Augustines claim: Virtue gives perfection to the soul; the soul obtains virtue by following God; following God is the happy live. Provide reasons and examples to support your view.
Topic: Virtues and Vices Please respond to the following:
Q3. Analyze and comment on Epictetus statement as it relates to behaving with virtue: Some things are up to us and some are not up to us.
Q4. Analyze the claim by Foot that virtue belongs to the will. Explain your understanding of the relationship between virtue and the will. Is virtue a relevant influence to our lives today? Provide reasons and examples to support your view.
Topic: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Please respond to the following:
Q5. Compare Jonathan Edwards presentation, which claims that divine judgment will be brought down on a person who yields to vice, to Plutarchs argument that there is no pleasure in vice. Discuss the issue, and provide examples of possible alternative incentives to avoid vice.
Q6. Explain how, in your view, a belief in original sin might influence a persons approach to moral education. Provide reasons and examples to support your view.
Topic: Jealousy, Envy, and Grudge Please respond to the following:
Read Immanuel Kants views titled Virtue and Vice, located at . Be prepared to discuss.
Q7. From above reading Kants essay, debate whether it is possible to envy others without begrudging their happiness. Describe how Kant views this issue. Provide reasons and examples to support your view.