Questions on Virtue Ethics

  
 

 

1. Suppose you want to decide whether to cheat on an exam. How would you apply Virtue Ethics principles in reasoning about this?

2. If Virtue Ethics defines a virtue as the sort of disposition that will achieve 'eudamonia', could the class of virtues be determined sociologically?

3. Aristotle's 'eudaemonia' is a pretty materialist conception - basically it's the happy life of the prosperous, married man. But other people have proposed other utimate goals in life. For example Nietzsche (an insane person) thought the first principle of life was the Will to Power (how very German) What effect would that have on the type of virtues that one derives in the Virtue Ethics system.