JALDO, JEROME M.

BSCE-2C

ETHICS

ACTIVITY 4: CHAPTER 4

1. What is moral virtue? What is Intellectual Virtue?

ANSWER:
The moral virtue are thought to include traits such as courage, justice, honesty,
compassion, temperance, and kindness.
Intellectual virtues are thought to include traits such as open mindedness,
intellectual rigour, intellectual humility, and inquisitiveness. In other words
intellectual virtue is wisdom.

2. What is the difference between moral and intellectual virtue? Explain

ANSWER:
Moral virtue: moral virtue belongs to the irrational but conscious part of the soul. It
consist in subordinating emotions and desire to reason for example, temperance. It
is amoral virtue and and consist in the control of desires f pleasure by reason.
Courage is also a moral virtue. It consist in the control of the emotion of feaar by
reason. Moral virtue are habits of deliberate choice for the realisation of the good.
They are the mean between two extreams.

Intellectual virtue: This type of virtue belongs to the rational self. It includes both
theoretical and practicle knowledge. Intellectual virtue implies knowledge or
wisdom as well as habit. It is not enough that man acquires knowledge. That is only
the theoretical part. The practical consist in applying the knowledge in practical life.
Knowledge does not constitute virtue, knowledge is an indispensible element of
virtue. Virtue dend upon the knowledge of the good and a habit of willing the good.

3. Identify some Filipino traits categorize each as virtue (middle) or vices (excess or deficiency)
place them in the table.

ANSWER:
 EXCESS MIDDLE DEFICIENCY

IMPULSIVENESS SELF-CONTROL INDECISIVENESS

PRODIGALITY COURAGE COWARDICE
RECKLESSNESS LIBERALITY MEANNESS
SHYNESS MODESTY SHAMELESSNESS

4. How is a person’s character formed according to Aristotle.

ANSWER:
Aristotle claims that character develops over time as one acquires habits from
parents and community, first through reward and punishment. Aristotle claims that
one is partly responsible for one’s character, but he thereby raises the question
whether one freely chooses one’s character.

5. Who do you think possesses a moral character in your community? Explain your answer.

ANSWER:
It is hard to answer this, but I know that everyone has possesses a moral character,
good or bad. Because moral are a subjective, individualized construct not open to
debate.