Every other ethical theory you study asks what should I do? This one asks something different: what sort of person should I be? Everything that follows — and every objection to it — comes from that single change of question.
Can an ethics built on character, rather than rules, actually tell anyone how to live?
Each sub-topic lines its positions up on an axis. Pick a sub-topic, then tap a position to see what it claims and where it is strong or weak. If you can order them, you understand them.
Tap a circle — or use Tab and Enter — to explore each position.
Top answers do not treat the three lessons separately. Three ideas run through all of them — spot the thread and you are writing at the top of the mark scheme.
Virtue ethics asks what you should BE, not what you should DO. Every strength and every weakness follows from that one move.
The Function Argument gives the goal, the goal shapes the virtues, the virtues need the mean. Break the first link and the rest wobbles.
Both sides agree virtue ethics issues no rules. Whether that is fatal or the whole point IS the evaluation.
The unit splits into three lessons. Each answers a different question — and each one has to work for the theory to stand.
Everything for the unit, in one place. Open a sub-topic's lesson, booklet and podcast, and use the Philosopher Companion across all three.
LINKS list near the bottom, and paste each SharePoint share link once. Buttons with no link show as "Link not set".
Use your resources in this order. The Philosopher Companion is where you learn to plan all three question types.
One podcast per sub-topic — a teacher and student talk each position through to a judgement. Annotate as you listen.
Read the given text, write the key claims in your own words, then decide the strength and weakness YOU would give each position.
In the Companion: match each term to its meaning, then use it in a sentence of your own. RAG-rate the mastery checklist with the three faces.
Use the Companion frameworks and the guidance-left / your-turn-right scaffolds. Never evaluate what you have not first explained.
Fifteen minutes, no notes beyond your plan. Then check it against the worked example in Part 4.
A full review of Aristotle's virtue ethics — eudaimonia, the mean, theoria and the evaluation. Best watched before you start revising, then again to check your recall.
Teacher: paste the YouTube link in the VIDEO_URL line near the bottom of this file. The player then appears here automatically.
Flip a card to check yourself. Switch between key terms (term → meaning) and positions (position → claim, strength & weakness), and filter by sub-topic.