Publication details

Hodnota klasického morálního charakteru

Title in English Value of classical moral character
Authors

BRÁZDIL Jan

Year of publication 2021
Type Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Description The topic of my contribution falls into the area of rehabilitation of Aristotle's concept of moral character (or moral virtue). Rehabilitation of the classic concept can be done in a several ways, but the area of my interest is the content update of this concept with a help of psychological sciences. My intention will be to prove that, despite many parallels of the classical concept to contemporary psychology, many of these proposals are not suitable for a real update and rehabilitation of Aristotle's concept, as they neglect the meaning and value of this concept. At the heart of my contribution is a reflection on the value of Aristotle's concept of virtue, which type of updating can be beneficial to this concept, which would be superfluous and which would be harmful. I consider the improvement of our orientation and practice in moral space to be a key value of Aristotle's concept. Aristotle's ethical theory achieves this goal by carefully considering an intuitive conception of moral character and setting it in a eudaimonistic framework, in other words, by clarifying the meaning and interrelationships of many concepts that we commonly associate with morality and living a good and contented life.
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