"What is the good life?"
Virtue Ethics
"Character Counts"
	Character is the essence of ethics
Aristotle's Character branches into Mill's Consequences (external), Actions (external), Kant's Intentions (internal)
Mill's Consequences - Utilitarianism, consequentialism; concerned with actions; attempt to make science out of ethics; empirisist.
Internal - cultivating virtues, responsibilist; you are responsible for creating in yourself the proper virtues; concerned with intentions behind actions.
Phenomena vs. Numina.
	Phenomena = things that are not understood and ambiguous
	Numina = things that are certain and known
Internal and External conditions
Concept of Virtue - virtue has been perverted.
	i.e. gender, there are different meanings for virtue for females and males
virtue - a balance between vices
Aristotle's Theory of Virtue: Teleology - all things have an end toward which they naturally aim; that toward which each thing naturally aim is its good; humans have an end toward which they aim, which is their good.
What is the good toward which humans aim?
The Good Life has specific properties.
Happiness: Pleasure (means to the end), Wealth (means to the end), Civic Duty (part of a happy life but not the end), Contemplative life (this is the truly good life but it is not practical)
	Happiness should be something that cannot be taken away from you. 
Happiness - "Activity of the soul in accordance with complete virtue."
soul = force of personality?
	Rational and irrational (desires) parts of soul 
virtue = reason and feeling?
	Moral (habitual) and intellectual virtues
	i.e. fear has two vices and a virtue: excess vice - cowardice, deficiency vice - foolhardiness, virtue - courage

Deontolgoy:
	duty, obligation, universalist, absolutist, intention, motive, rationality, "intrinsic unconditional value", heteronomy, 
	the Catergorical Imperative, a maxim, "The Kingdom Ends", respect for persons, dignity, a "Good Will", inclination, autonomy.
Categories of Knowledge:
	A priori - knowledge without experience (non-empirical)
	A posteriori - Knowledge gained via experience (empirically)
Freedom -> not casually determined -> autonomous -> ability to reason -> the ground of morality and moral responsibility -> obedience to Categorical Imperative
The Categorical Imperative - "Act only on that maxim by which you can will that your act should become a universal law."
	Those who are truly morally praiseworthy will accept the universal law and abide by it.
Absolutism leads to a limitation in thinking and freedom, then extremism, and then fanaticism.
	Does not allow for any change under any circumstances, there is almost a lack of reason
	These people are not allowed to change their mind

Descartes' Cogito
	What do we know? How do we know? What is knowledge?
		Analytic Philosophy (Aristotle, Kant, Mill, Held)
	Experiential self as primary 
		Continental Philosophy - Existentialist (Sautre, Ponty, Camus)