solved Discussion 1: Virtue and purpose Please carefully read and think

Discussion 1: Virtue and purpose Please carefully read and think about the entire prompt before composing your first post. This discussion will require you to have carefully read Chapter 5 of the textbook, as well as the assigned portions of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. Aristotle’s account of ethics is “teleological”, which means that our understanding of virtue and living well is based on a sense of the “telos” (function, purpose, or end) of something (see Aristotle’s text and the textbook for the full account). Engage with the text: Using at least one quoted passage from the required text(s), explain the relation between virtue and living well on Aristotle’s account, and briefly describe some of the key characteristics of virtue ethics. Reflect on yourself: Identify an area of your life in which particular virtues are needed to do well. Explain what the “telos” (or plural of telos?) of that role or activity is, what virtues are needed and why they are needed, and what would be lost if someone tried to be successful in that activity who didn’t exercise the virtues. This might be a role you have, a vocation or career, a hobby, or something common to all of us. Reflect on virtue: In what ways do the virtues you identify display the characteristics Aristotle describes? For instance, you could explain whether they occupy an intermediate between too much and too little of some quality, how they would affect one’s emotions as well as ones actions, etc. Discussion 2 Hi class, this week we have a symposium where the approach should consider how to engage the topic via virtue ethics. The focus topic for this week is to discuss what we need to have, as a society, to help individuals flourish and develop their own talents and ethical abilities. In other words, what is needed to help enable people to become virtuous, to become good citizens, and to be able to live rich, meaningful lives? To start thinking more about how to answer that, I would like you to watch the following two short clips from Martha Nussbaum to use and relate to in your response: Martha Nussbaum is a contemporary theorist who bases some of the core concepts and reasoning of her approach to issues like social policy and ethics on some of the core assumptions of virtue ethics. See the following two clips to get a brief sense of how she does this: Martha Nussbaum: 1 minute on translating Aristotle’s term “eudaimonia” as human flourishing, a complex idea not simply reducible to “happiness” in the common sense. https://youtu.be/cbcGbflpFzI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCFtCG-_MrE