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PHIL MISC

Module 5: Chapters 8

1)Virtue ethics focus around trying to emulate character traits that are considered virtuous. Many examples can be found in religion, such as the textbook's example of Abraham.

2. Moral virtues, according to Aristotle, are learned by the careful reading of books on morality.

3. Aristotle believed that                     is the mean (or middle) between the two extremes of deficiency and excess.

4.             claimed that virtues are traits that are "in some general way, beneficial. Human beings do not get on well without them."

5. Aristotle believed that there are two types of virtues, intellectual virtues and                    virtues.

6. Much of the controversy within feminist ethics centers around the question of whether or not there is a                                         difference in morality.

7. The term ethics of caring (or care) describes a proposed specifically                       morality.

8. Carol Giligan, a psychologist, attempted to split moral perspective into separate female moral perspective and male moral perspective.

9. Feminist ethics and the ethics of care/caring" (sometimes called feminine ethics), are interchangeable terms.