COPY: Virtue Ethics: Understanding the Concept of Human Fulfillment
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What is the excess response to the virtue of courage in the doctrine of the mean?

  • Willingness to face danger
  • Dependability
  • Rashness or foolhardiness (correct)
  • Absence

    • What is the response to deficiency in the doctrine of the mean for the virtue of generosity?

  • Stinginess
  • Being there when someone needs you
  • Giving up time and money (correct)
  • Extravagance or Prodigality

    • What is the virtue that is the mean between cowardice and rashness or foolhardiness in the doctrine of the mean?

  • Temperance
  • Courage (correct)
  • Generosity
  • Phronesis

    • What is the deficiency response to the virtue of temperance in the doctrine of the mean?

    <p>Insensibility</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of Phronesis in relation to virtue ethics?

    <p>To apply moral principles in a flexible way</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the relationship between Phronesis and virtue ethics?

    <p>Phronesis provides the application of good character traits, and virtue ethics provides the traits themselves.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the ultimate goal of virtue ethics?

    <p>To live a flourishing and good life (Eudaimonia).</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is essential for developing virtue, according to the text?

    <p>Phronesis, which allows us to apply our moral knowledge to real-world situations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to the doctrine of the mean, what is the relationship between excess and deficiency responses?

    <p>Excess and deficiency responses are both bad, and the mean is good.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the result of applying moral principles in a rigid way?

    <p>A lack of adaptability to specific circumstances.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of the doctrine of the mean?

    <p>To identify excess, deficiency, and mean responses to different virtues.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the virtue that is the mean between stinginess and extravagance or prodigality?

    <p>Generosity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the ability to discern the good in a particular situation?

    <p>Phronesis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the result of having Phronesis?

    <p>Making sound judgments about what course of action to take.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the implication of not having Phronesis?

    <p>Inability to make sound judgments about what course of action to take.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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