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Virtue Ethics - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Their is a vice and a exessive
        
        Example: The vice of courage is cowardice and the exessive is wrecklesness
        
        'A courageous person would asses the situation and come to a reasonable conclusion'
- - - - Greek
        
        Wrote 'Nicomachean ethics'
- - - - Aristotles assumed that humans naturally have telos which is EUDAIMONIA which can only be achieved through being virtuous
- - - - Compassion is focused on people whose well-being is destroyed by disease rather than a collection of cells in a petri-dish.
      - physical and mental modification is most likely to be inevitable
      - Stem-cell cloning and cloning offer the opportunity to increase human well-being and to develop virtues courage and vision through the removal of some of the diseases that plague humans.
      - EUTHANASIA-Using virtue ethics-I would apply kindness in hopes of granting the patients the wish to not suffer any longer. -Courage to actually end someone's life if you're a doctor or for the patient to have the courage -death is scary
      - ABORTION-
      - CAPITAL PUNISHMENT-Virtue of justice-does the crime the person has committed truly deserve death?-could the person have been framed?-links to truthfulness and courage
      - INTENSIVE FARMING-hierarchy of souls proves that Aristotle's view would have had no ethical problem with eating meat since he considered that animals existed for humans.
        compassion would state that you need to be compassionate for the animals that are forced live in horrific living conditions.
      - USE OF ANIMALS IN SCIENTIFIC PROCEDURES-our highest thing is reason and intellect, we use this intellect to commit scientific procedures- using animals extends our intellect and knowledge.
        Compassion is directed towards humans in the sense that cloning and experimentation could eradicate the disease.
    - - Aristotle's approval of scientific research
      - His emphasis on the development of useful knowledge
      - and compassion for humans who might survive an organ transplant