A student explicitly frames the clash as consequentialism versus Aristotelian virtue ethics, where Dante's world cares more about the state of virtue than the external outcome.
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"...outcome. But this would have been in a time of like Aristotelian virtue ethics. And so we would be caring far more about the..."
"...wrote plays that didn't obey the unities, the supposed all -important Aristotelian unities of action, time and place. The ideal play would have an..."
"So I'm seeing this as like an Aristotelian golden mean. And so the example I have, even though bravery is not something that'll get..."
"...we move on yes so in my in my research of aristotelian"
"...fine and social it just seems like muddying the waters where aristotelian uh understanding would simplify it okay so that you"
"...take the pure platonic world of Augustine and combine it with Aristotelian science and logic and reason. He's trying to combine faith and reason...."
"...of science. Okay? Right? So the Muslim world had a decidedly Aristotelian world the European world had a Platonic perspective. Now the great thing..."
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