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Psychological Aspects of Social Issues Chapter 7 Virtue Ethics Be a Good Person 1
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Psychological Aspects of Social Issues. Chapter 7 Virtue Ethics Be a Good Person. Outline/Overview. Aristotelian ethics Core concepts – virtue, eudaimonia , golden mean Evaluating the theory Ethics of care Gilligan contrasted with Kohlberg Principles/discussion - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Psychological Aspects of Social Issues
Psychological Aspects of Social IssuesChapter 7Virtue EthicsBe a Good Person1
Outline/OverviewAristotelian ethicsCore concepts virtue, eudaimonia, golden meanEvaluating the theoryEthics of careGilligan contrasted with KohlbergPrinciples/discussionEvaluation current research2
Aristotelian virtue ethicsLife is teleologicalEudaimonia happiness/human flourishingWhat is a virtue?Develop by being exercised - we become just by doing just acts
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The Golden Mean Midpoint between behavioral extremes.ConfuscianismAlso Socrates, and PlatoConsistency with our experience?Examples4
Virtuous/happy lifeModeration in all things.Contrast with Kantian ethicsKant - act out of sense of dutyVirtue ethicist do right due to our characterHow do we decide virtues that we should be cultivating?Moral exemplarsImitate the proper moral example initially and later internalizeWe get virtues by exercising virtues.5
Evaluating Virtue EthicsLiving a good life-good starting pointCoherence is metGenerally consistent with moral judgments & experiences.Usefulness, applying - problematicHow do we know what a virtuous person would do?CircularityPlenty of guidance out there about virtue and vice.Virtues can be in conflictCan weight principles hybrid?6
Ethics of CareEmphasizes interpersonal relationships and virtuesCarol Gilligan advanced these ideas as a reaction to Kohlbergs workGilligan believed the description of moral reasoning Kohlberg developed explained how men went about moral decision makingWomen are more likely to focus on interpersonal relationships7
Recent research real difference?Vaughn - recent research has raised doubts about there being dramatic differences between genders.Sort of true.not huge, but reliable differencesMeta-analyses have found differences in the small-medium effect rangeGender differences in caring orientation seems to be largest for adolescents.Females do develop higher levels of prosocial behaviorBaier points out the importance of integrating both justice and caring into our moral framework.8
