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Foundation of Ethics according to Aristotle - ✔✔Human Nature. To be Ethical is to be a Good Human
Being.
Foundation of Ethics according to Aquinas - ✔✔Human Nature as rooted in the Divine Nature
Foundation of Ethics according to Kant - ✔✔Reason and Logical Consistency
Foundation of Ethics according to Mill - ✔✔Pleasure and Absence of Pain
Describe the similarities and differences between the ethical views of Aristotle and Aquinas. -
✔✔Aquinas agrees with just about everything Aristotle taught us about eudaimonia in this life time. He
just believes that the flourishing we experience in this life is incomplete; it is not ultimate. The ultimate
fulfillment of our nature comes in the afterlife when we are united with Goodness Itself and Truth Itself.
This is God, and Aquinas calls are union with God the Vision of the Divine Essence.
Explain what it means that Aristotle's is a wisdom-based ethics, Kant's is a rule-based ethics, and Mill's is
a calculation-based ethics - ✔✔Wisdom bases ethics is ethics based on human nature and the ultimate
goal or purpose
Rule based ethics is ethics based on a set of rules that fit any circumstance
Calculation based ethics is ethics based on calculating pleasure and pain.
Explain when it is that a Utilitarian will do a utilitarian calculation and when she will use a "rule of
thumb." - ✔✔1. When we have enough time to do a calculation and the choice before us is a Big
Decision
2. When you suspect that the rule of thumb you are using needs revision because it doesn't seem to
maximize happiness among those who are affected
Foundation of Ethics according to Aristotle - ✔✔Human Nature. To be Ethical is to be a Good Human
Being.
Foundation of Ethics according to Aquinas - ✔✔Human Nature as rooted in the Divine Nature
Foundation of Ethics according to Kant - ✔✔Reason and Logical Consistency
Foundation of Ethics according to Mill - ✔✔Pleasure and Absence of Pain
Describe the similarities and differences between the ethical views of Aristotle and Aquinas. -
✔✔Aquinas agrees with just about everything Aristotle taught us about eudaimonia in this life time. He
just believes that the flourishing we experience in this life is incomplete; it is not ultimate. The ultimate
fulfillment of our nature comes in the afterlife when we are united with Goodness Itself and Truth Itself.
This is God, and Aquinas calls are union with God the Vision of the Divine Essence.
Explain what it means that Aristotle's is a wisdom-based ethics, Kant's is a rule-based ethics, and Mill's is
a calculation-based ethics - ✔✔Wisdom bases ethics is ethics based on human nature and the ultimate
goal or purpose
Rule based ethics is ethics based on a set of rules that fit any circumstance
Calculation based ethics is ethics based on calculating pleasure and pain.
Explain when it is that a Utilitarian will do a utilitarian calculation and when she will use a "rule of
thumb." - ✔✔1. When we have enough time to do a calculation and the choice before us is a Big
Decision
2. When you suspect that the rule of thumb you are using needs revision because it doesn't seem to
maximize happiness among those who are affected
