Ethics - Virtue Ethics and Socratic Philosophy

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What is Virtue Ethics concerned with?

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Developing an individual's virtues, which are good habits of character, while avoiding bad habits or vices.

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What are cardinal virtues in Virtue Ethics?

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Primary or major virtues that one needs to develop or improve.

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Why are virtues considered essential for an individual's growth?

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They are difficult to develop and maintain, corrective to natural deficiencies, beneficial to self and society, and require effort.

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What did Socrates mean by 'The unexamined life is not worth living'?

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Life must be lived in pursuit of knowledge and wisdom.

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What is the Socratic method?

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A form of cooperative argumentative dialogue that stimulates critical thinking to help individuals figure out answers.

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What is the Euthyphro Dilemma?

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A question about whether morality is grounded in God's commands or if God's commands are based on an independent standard of goodness.

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What is the Theory of Forms according to Plato?

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Forms are perfect, stable models of everyday objects, and the physical world is prone to error and imperfection.

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What is the highest Form in Plato's philosophy?

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The Good, which is the universal priority and the source of truth, right, and beauty.

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What does Plato's Allegory of the Cave illustrate?

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The journey from ignorance to knowledge and the difficulty of accepting the truth.

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How does Plato define justice?

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As a higher moral principle that is more relevant than just the law, and as the highest virtue achieved by exercising other virtues.