Wisdom,Knowledge and Information

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Wisdom,Knowledge and Information

• Facts and information are gathered.Knowledge is
  understood to be some thing that can be
  taught.Wisdom is something whose elements are
  understanding, insight, good judgment,the
  capacity to live well and guiding the conduct
  well.

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VIRTUE THEORY

• Aristotle, an early Greek Thinker proposed one of
  the most influential theories of Ethics
• Called Virtue Theory.According to this theory
  virtues or morally good habits develop only
  through training and repetition.

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• Just as individuals develop other kinds of
  practical abilities through practice and
  repetition, so also he argued humans acquire
  their moral ability when they are taught and
  habituated by their families and communities to
  think feel, and behave in morally appropriate
  ways.

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• Why be moral? What a human being should be. We
  all have reason to support good practice since we
  all want our lives to go well - our own lives -
  but this is not necessarily a selfish want -
  typically, we see our own lives as going well
  only if lives of our close friends parents,
  children and other group members go well

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• The moral virtues are just those traits of
  character we need in order to have best chance of
  making our lives go well.
• Virtues relate to fundamental universal facts
  about human nature and conditions of living
  tolerably, they are of critical importance for
  all people everywhere.

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• Courage, Temperance, Generosity, Self-control,
  Honesty, Sociability, Modesty, and Fairness or
  Justice are all virtues  
• He claims that much more attention must be paid
  to peoples character .