Virtue Ethics Quotes

"A humans being is a [blank_start]person[blank_end] because the [blank_start]kind[blank_end] to which he belongs is [blank_start]characterised[blank_end] by a [blank_start]rational[blank_end] nature. (...)" - Elizabeth [blank_start]Anscombe[blank_end]

'[blank_start]acquired[blank_end] personhood' undermines value human [blank_start]equality[blank_end] - eg: less civilised tribes > Greeks; "[blank_start]natural[blank_end] [blank_start]slaves[blank_end]" - Aristotle ([blank_start]384[blank_end] - [blank_start]322[blank_end] BC)

"These [blank_start]virtues[blank_end] are [blank_start]formed[blank_end] in man by his doing the actions [...] The [blank_start]good[blank_end] of man is a [blank_start]working[blank_end] of the [blank_start]soul[blank_end] in the way of [blank_start]excellence[blank_end] in a [blank_start]complete[blank_end] life." - Aristotle (NE)

"[blank_start]Freedom[blank_end] is the [blank_start]obedience[blank_end] to self-formulated [blank_start]rules[blank_end]." - Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics)

"Whenever we do something, we do it to [blank_start]gain[blank_end] [blank_start]an[blank_end] [blank_start]end[blank_end]." - Aristotle (NE) - T[blank_start]elos[blank_end] / E[blank_start]udaimonia[blank_end]

"The self-[blank_start]indulgent[blank_end] man craves for all [blank_start]pleasant[blank_end] things [...] and is led by his [blank_start]appetite[blank_end] to choose these at the [blank_start]cost[blank_end] of [blank_start]everything[blank_end] else." - Aristotle (NE) (Criticism of [blank_start]Hedonism[blank_end])

Virtues are "[blank_start]made[blank_end] [blank_start]perfect[blank_end] by [blank_start]habit[blank_end]" - Aristotle (NE)

"[blank_start]Happiness[blank_end] then, is found to be something [blank_start]perfect[blank_end] and [blank_start]self-sufficient[blank_end], being the [blank_start]end[blank_end] to which our actions are [blank_start]directed[blank_end]." - Aristotle (NE) - Telos / [blank_start]Eudaimonia[blank_end]

"[blank_start]Happiness[blank_end], then, is something [blank_start]final[blank_end] and [blank_start]self-sufficient[blank_end], and the end of an [blank_start]action[blank_end]." - Aristotle (NE) - Telos / Eudaimonia

"For the things we have to [blank_start]learn[blank_end] before we can do them, we learn [blank_start]best[blank_end] by [blank_start]doing[blank_end] them." - Aristotle ([blank_start]Nichomachean[blank_end] Ethics)

"Shall we not, like [blank_start]archers[blank_end] who have a [blank_start]mark[blank_end] to aim at, be more likely to [blank_start]hit[blank_end] upon what is [blank_start]right[blank_end]?" - Aristotle (NE)

"[blank_start]Virtue[blank_end] lies in our power, and similarly so does [blank_start]vice[blank_end]; because where it is in our power to [blank_start]act[blank_end], it is also in our power [blank_start]not[blank_end] to act." - Aristotle (NE) - ([blank_start]Excess[blank_end], [blank_start]Deficiency[blank_end] and the [blank_start]Golden Mean[blank_end])

"One [blank_start]day[blank_end] or brief [blank_start]time[blank_end] of happiness does not make a person [blank_start]entirely[blank_end] [blank_start]happy[blank_end]." - Aristotle (NE)

Aristotle's Virtues - "What Aristotle takes to be 'the [blank_start]code[blank_end] of [blank_start]gentlemen[blank_end]' in [blank_start]contemporary[blank_end] [blank_start]Greek[blank_end] [blank_start]Society[blank_end]." - [blank_start]MacIntyre[blank_end] (Short [blank_start]History[blank_end] on Ethics - 20[blank_start]02[blank_end])

" [...] ethics can be based, [blank_start]instead[blank_end], on the idea of [blank_start]virtue[blank_end] [...] " - [blank_start]Anscombe[blank_end] - Modern Moral Philosophy ([blank_start]1958[blank_end])

"It is [blank_start]primarily[blank_end] by his [blank_start]intentions[blank_end] that a man's [blank_start]moral[blank_end] [blank_start]dispositions[blank_end] are [blank_start]judged[blank_end]." - Philippa Foot

"Virtue is not, like a [blank_start]skill[blank_end] or art, a mere [blank_start]capacity[blank_end]; it must actually [blank_start]engage[blank_end] the [blank_start]will[blank_end]." - Foot

[blank_start]Eudaimonia[blank_end] - "The general [blank_start]condition[blank_end] of [blank_start]fulfillment[blank_end]" - [blank_start]Scruton[blank_end] - Modern Philosophy

(Why Aristotle believed in the Golden Mean) - "[blank_start]self[blank_end]-[blank_start]control[blank_end] is [blank_start]essential[blank_end]" - [blank_start]Bowie[blank_end] - Ethical Studies