{"id":1805,"date":"2016-04-26T20:49:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T12:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xixilogic.org\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2016-11-10T18:50:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T10:50:13","slug":"knut-agotnes-aristotelian-virtue-ethics-a-moral-philosophy-for-our-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zlaire.net\/events\/previous\/2016\/04\/knut-agotnes-aristotelian-virtue-ethics-a-moral-philosophy-for-our-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Knut \u00c5gotnes: Aristotelian virtue ethics, a moral philosophy for our time?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Xixi Logic Seminars #32<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaker:<\/strong> Knut \u00c5gotnes
\nDate & Time:<\/strong> 26 April 2016 (Tuesday), 13:30 \u2013 15:00
\n Place:<\/strong> Seminar room #259, Main teaching building, Xixi campus, Zhejiang University<\/p>\n

Aristotelian virtue ethics, a moral philosophy for our time?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aristotle\u2019s ethics focuses on the development of a person\u2019s character. To be a good person is paramount. However, a person\u2019s moral\u00a0 character consists of his virtues \u2013 his sense of justice for instance \u2013 that are both competences for acting and motivations for actions. And to live the good life is the ultimate aim for man. The lecture will sketch Aristotle\u2019s theory of the virtues and the good life, and then discuss how it differs from two ethical theories that has been dominant in modern times, utilitarianism and kantianism. Common to both of these is a focus on actions and a tendency to “forget” both the virtues and human nature as a whole. In what way can this “one-sidedness” have unfortunate consequences? Can virtue ethics play a benevolent role here?<\/p>\n

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Xixi Logic Seminars #32 Speaker: Knut \u00c5gotnes Date & Time: 26 April 2016 (Tuesday), 13:30 \u2013 15:00 Place: Seminar room #259, Main teaching building, Xixi campus, Zhejiang University Aristotelian virtue ethics, a moral philosophy for our time? Aristotle\u2019s ethics focuses …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invited-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zlaire.net\/events\/previous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zlaire.net\/events\/previous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zlaire.net\/events\/previous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zlaire.net\/events\/previous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zlaire.net\/events\/previous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.zlaire.net\/events\/previous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2307,"href":"https:\/\/www.zlaire.net\/events\/previous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions\/2307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zlaire.net\/events\/previous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zlaire.net\/events\/previous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zlaire.net\/events\/previous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}