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By: Ms. Josille Marquez
By: Ms. Josille Marquez
Josille Marquez
• An ethical framework that is concerned with understanding the
good as a matter of developing the virtuous character of a
person.
• The two major thinkers of this theory are Ancient Greek Plato
and Aristotle.
• His book entitled “Nicomachean Ethics” was the first
comprehensive and programmatic study of virtue ethics.
• For him, the real is found within our everyday encounter with
objects in the world. What makes nature intelligible is its
character of having both form and matter. Therefore the truth
and the good cannot exist apart from the object and are not
independent of or experience. Meaning, according to him, the
truth and the good can be attained through experience.
• For Aristotle, human soul is divided into two parts: the irrational
element and the rational faculty.
IRRATIONAL ELEMENT RATIONAL FACULTY
2. Identify at least three (3) Filipino traits and identify its virtue
(middle) and its vices (Deficiency and Excess). (10 pts)