PHI 208 week 4 DQ 2

  

Ashford 5: - Week 4 - Discussion 2

 

Reference the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.
 

     

Week   Four Discussion 2

This week you will have two discussions. Your Instructor will be choosing the discussions questions and posting them as the first posts in the discussion forums. The requirements for the discussion this week are a minimum of four posts on four separate days. The total combined word count for all of your posts, counted together, should be over 600 words. Be sure to answer all the questions in the prompt and to read any resources that are required to complete the discussion properly. In order to satisfy the posting requirements for the week, please complete your initial post by Day 3 (Thursday) and your other posts by Day 7 (Monday). We recommend that you get into the discussion early and spread out your posts over the course of the week. Be sure to reply to your classmates and instructor. Try to attempt to take the conversation further by examining their claims or arguments in more depth or responding to the posts that they make to you. Keep the discussion on target and try to analyze things in as much detail as you can.

   

Continuing from the focus of discussion 1, here address   specifically the cultivation of habits, and the idea of willing ourselves   towards environmental concern and "virtue."

An important aspect of Aristotle’s   virtue ethics is the idea that virtues are “habits” that we acquire or   cultivate over time.  Like any habit, what Aristotle refers to as   "virtues" will impact not just what we do in act, but they affect   our desires and emotions as well.  

   How might this notion of "habits" be important when discussing   environmental ethics?
 

  How would a virtue ethicist reply to someone who says that they wish they   could do more to express concern for the environment, but are too “weak   willed” to do that?  
  How might emotions help or hinder when approaching environmental questions?
 

  Use examples from the assigned media when appropriate. Consider Hill's   article as reference for this discussion, as well.