Assignment:
"Happiness and the Virtues" Please respond to the following:
E-Activity: View the video titled "Ethical Theory: Aristotle's Virtue Ethics, Solitary Confinement, and Supererogatory Actions" on YouTube video, (5 min 11 s), located at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ83U1Nx_dI.
• From the e-Activity and Aristotle's essay, analyze Aristotle's claim that reason determines right action. Discuss how this process occurs and how it is related to the general principle that virtuous action is a "mean" between extremes. Then, discuss the prisoner's views about isolation. Discuss your agreement or disagreement with Aristotle's view of happiness. Provide reasons and examples to support your view.
• Debate It: Take a position for or against Augustine's claim: "Virtue gives perfection to the soul; the soul obtains virtue by following God; following God is the happy live." Provide reasons and examples to support your view.
250 word count (discussion question)