"How should I live my life?" This is a question that many of us think to ourselves at some point. It was a question that the Ancient Greeks were obsessed with, and the field of Ethics has built up around it.
Aristotle thought an ethical life that of a virtuous person; this runs counter to our modern conception of ethics as centering on actions. Joining me this week to discuss Aristotelian Ethics and its modern form Virtue Ethics was Lecturer of Philosophy at Edinburgh and the Open Universities Dr Stephen Watt. You can download the episode here:
Virtue Ethics Show
If you would like to read any more about Virtue Ethics you can find Rosalind Hursthouse's Stanford Encyclopedia article on the subject here:
Virtue Ethics - Stanford Encyclopedia
And Richard Kraut's Stanford Encyclopedia article on Aristotle's Ethics here:
Aristotle's Ethics - Stanford Encyclopedia
Next week I will be talking to Dr Tillmann Vierkant about free will and the implications of modern neuroscience on how we conceive of it, if you have any questions for Dr Vierkant leave them below, if not you can listen live next Friday at 12 30 (freshair.org.uk) or download it as always from here.
Friday, February 26, 2010
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