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Quotations (Cont.)

"Thus it is possible to go too far, or not to go far enough, in respect to fear, courage, desire, anger, pity, and pleasure and pain generally; and the excess and the deficiency are both wrong" (p.109)

"The equal part is a mean between excess and deficiency...Every science,then, performs its function well if it looks to the mean and refers the works that it produces to that standard. This is why it is usually said of successful works that is impossible to take anything from them or to add anything to them" (p.108-109)

Connections (Cont.)

"It must be laid down that every virtue or excellence has the effect of producing a good condition of that of which it is a virtue or excellence, and of enabling it to perform its function well" (p.108)

Quotations

- Virtues can only be learned through constant practice, they consist of leaning through experience.

"Every art and every scientific inquiry, and similarly every action and purpose, may be said to aim at some good" (p.101)

"We conceive happiness to be the most desirable of all things, and not merely as one among good things. If it were one among good things...then,that happiness is something final and self-sufficient, the end of all action" (p.104)

Counterarguments

- "Pursuit of happiness" is achieved in decisions we make to achieve happiness.

- Colter Stevens didn't have much free will early in the movie

Book 2 Summary (Cont.)

Connections

Explanation of Movie Ending

-2 Common Theories

-Stevens enters the Afterlife

- The productions of art have excellence with in themselves

- Every virtue has the effect of producing a good condition and of enabling it to perform its function well

- In everything we do, it is possible to take an equal part(not too much, not too little aka the mean between two extremes)

- Every science performs its function well if it follows the mean

- Virtue aims at the mean

- Virtue is a state of deliberate moral purpose

- Virtue is a mean between two vices: excess and deficiency

- In every action and purpose it is the end, For it is for the sake of the end that people do everything

- The end = Good

- Pleasure is clearly a good which is pursued for its own sake even if it’s not ‘The Good’

Book 2 Summary

Is the Source Code Ethical?

- No moral virtue is implanted in us by nature, law of nature cannot be alter by habit

- Nature gives us the capacity to receive virtues

- We acquire virtues by exercising them

- The means by which any virtue is produced are the same by which it is destroyed (it is by acting in the face of danger that we become cowardly or courageous)

Book 1 Summary

Based upon Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics , we believe that Aristotle would conclude the Source Code to be ethical

- All actions aim at some good

- There are different ends

- The action and end will be good

- Things noble and just are conventional

- Disagreements over happiness

- Man’s view of happiness comes from their own lives

- Man finds goodness in his function

- The soul has 2 parts

Discussion Questions

1. Do you think the Source Code is ethical? Why or why not?

2. What do you think is the function of man?

3. Aristotle mentions that the mean of something is the best option. Do you agree or disagree? Can you think of an exception to this statement?

Ethics Presentation - Aristotle

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