Wednesday, January 20, 2010
"Meno"
When reading the "Meno" I began to ask myself what virtue was to me. I was thinking to myself that virtue is acting a certain way under certain principles. For instance: acting under responsibility, loyalty, or even honor. I remember hearing in class people saying that virtue has to do with ethics. In a way I understand and comprehend this point of view. I think that it is impossible to teach someone to be ethical because for one person being ethical is not the same as another person's being ethical. Plus every person has a different mindset of what their morals may be. So if virtue is like ethics as some said and being ethical , I think that you cannot be taught virtue and how to be virtuous because of the fact that one person's response to being virtuous is not the same as another. However, I think that we can discuss among each other what we think virtue or ethical behavior is and by getting all the ideas out on the table for people to see, the person who is trying to establish what virtue is or ethical behavior is can draw their own conclusions using their morals and sense of direction to what they think being ethical or virtuous is. So, basically what I am saying is that you can't learn to be ethical in a certain way or be virtuous in a certain way. You can only figure out what you believe to be true about a virtue or true to be about ethics.
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By figuring out "what you believe to be true about a virtue or true to be about ethics" could you not discover something new about your own views? That is to also ask, once we have "all the ideas out on the table" do they not influence any one person's views at all?
ReplyDeleteWhen you say, "you can't learn to be ethical in a certain way", do you mean that one cannot adopt a system of ethical beliefs?
I think I mean that no one can teach you to be ethical, because there is no one right way of being ethical. It is based on what you think inside you is ethical and what you believe to be ethical based on many ideas and morals and beliefs you may have.
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