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Revision note: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle: Virtue Ethics

  • Socrates: unexamined life, Socratic method, virtue is knowledge, refused escape (Crito), hemlock
  • Plato: Academy, Republic, Forms, tripartite soul, philosopher-king, cardinal virtues (wisdom, courage, temperance, justice), Cave, Ring of Gyges
  • Aristotle: Lyceum, Nicomachean Ethics, eudaimonia, mean, virtue by habit, phronesis, distributive vs corrective justice
  • Virtue ethics: character over rules; limit – vague in dilemmas
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