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Part 1.

Questions:

• What is eudaimonia? What are the virtues? On the Aristotelian view, what role is the latter meant to play in the former?

• How might we distinguish between morality and ethics? Why might this distinction be important to understanding an Aristotelian virtue ethic?

• Why are emotions important to the motivation of action on the Aristotelian view? How is this different from the Kantian claim that one should act out of duty and not merely accordance with it?

• What does Aristotle mean when he says that our emotions are not first nature, but they feel as such because they are second nature? Why does it follow that we can train-up our emotional responses in the development of virtue?

• How do one's virtues reflect one's fundamental values? Give some examples to illustrate your points.

• How do virtues differ from mere skills? How are these differences meant to account for the final value of the virtues?

• According to a Kantian ethic, morally good actions arise out of the right principles, while for a utilitarian ethic morally good actions have the right consequences. What does an Aristotelian ethic claim, and how does it differ from these two proposals?

• What is the golden mean, and how does it enable us to identify a virtue?

• Is it a problem for an Aristotelian ethic that it doesn't offer much in the way of concrete practical moral guidance (in the way that a Kantian or utilitarian ethics does)?

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