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Virtue and Excellence: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics with Colin Redemer

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Aristotelian Ethics Versus Virtue Ethics?

The real problem or error of consequentialist ethics is that from out of the gate, it treats humans as objects to be calculated. That just doesn't enter the equation in virtue ethics. And so therefore, the reason Aristotel is writing the book for you then is to help your thinking. He's trying to help you conceptualize the various problems you run into in life and certain necessary features of your reality.

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