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Living rightly and being a virtuous person are important features in both Buddhist ethics and Aristotle's ethics. These two ethical perspectives also differ on key points.
For this assignment, consider and respond to the following questions:
- What are two differences between how virtues are described by Aristotle versus how they are described in Buddhism?
- What is one character trait that both Aristotle and Buddhism would describe as a moral virtue?
- How do you believe your friendships can help (or hinder) you having a good character?
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Topic: Weighing Character and Virtues
Parts covered:
1. Aristotle's ethics
2. Buddhist ethics
3. Differences of Aristotle’s ethics and Buddhist ethics
4. Similarity of Aristotle and Buddhist Ethics
5. How friends can hinder or help in having a good character
Running head: WEIGHING CHARACTER AND VIRTUES
Weighing Character and Virtues
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Aristotle's ethics
Virtue can be described as a character or behavior that is morally upright or of high moral
standards. According to Aristotle's ethics, he argues that by nature all men desire to know. He
also emphasizes that human have a desire for friendship, knowledge and association with others.
He argues that virtues also depend on underlying factors like prosperity, good health and
endowment as well. He is far from the imagination that the human nature is the one that provides
us with the dispositions for moral upright behaviors (Kristjánsson, 2015). He stresses on the need
for training and also habituation as early as from the childhood if the dispositions will be
developed in spontaneous time.
The main point and the purpose of engaging with ethic are to become good according to
the Aristotle argument. His first argument about happiness being the...
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