Module PHL3013 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
PHL3013: Virtues and Vices
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover all or some of the following topics:
- Introduction
- Virtue Ethics: for and against
- What is a virtue? What is a vice?
- Virtues and duties.
- Virtues and happiness.
- The cardinal virtues: wisdom, justice, courage and temperance
- The economic virtues and vices: thrift, generosity, greed and avarice
- The sexual virtues and vices: chastity, modesty and lust
- The military virtues and vices: courage, cowardice and foolhardiness
- Virtues pagan and Christian
- Conclusion
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
---|---|---|
22 | 128 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning and Teaching activity | 11 | Lectures |
Scheduled Learning and Teaching activity | 11 | Tutorials |
Guided Independent study | 128 | Reading, preparing classwork, writing essays and preparing for the exam |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics
Philippa Foot Virtues and Vices
Philippa Foot Natural Goodness
Peter Geach The Virtues
Rosalind Hursthouse Virtue Ethics
Alasdair MacIntyre After Virtue
ELE - http://vle.exeter.ac.uk.