| Kommentar |
What are virtues and vices? Are virtues kinds of skills, traits, or sensitivities (or all three)? Are vices simply the absences of virtues? Does possession of the virtues contribute intrinsically to an agent’s well-being? Can right action be explained in terms of how virtuous agents would characteristically act? Is knowledge a matter of believing truly out of intellectual virtues? This course will examine different accounts of the nature of virtues and vices and their significance for ethics and epistemology. Topics to be covered may include: rival accounts of the nature of virtues and vices, such as Aristotelian accounts, sentimentalist accounts, and consequentialist accounts; the relation between virtues, vices, and well-being; virtue ethics as an approach to moral theory; and virtue epistemology. |
| Bemerkung |
B.A. LA GyGe: M6: SE Angewandte Ethik; M11: SE Prakt. Phil.
B.A. LA HRGe: M6A und M6B; M7: SE Angewandte Ethik; M11: SE Prakt. Phil.
M.A (ab WS 2012/13): Ia, IIa, IIIa & Ic, IIc, IIIc |
