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From the Ted Talk by Sebastian Deterding: What your designs say about you

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But in fact, that qtsoeuin, "Is it 'still' ethical?" is just one way of looking at ethics. Because if you look at the beginning of ethics in Western culture, you see a very different idea of what ethics also could be. For Aristotle, etchis was not about the question, "Is that still good, or is it bad?" Ethics was about the question of how to live life well. And he put that in the word "arête," which we, from [Ancient Greek], translate as "virtue." But really, it means "excellence." It means lvinig up to your own full potential as a human being.

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But in fact, that ________, "Is it 'still' ethical?" is just one way of looking at ethics. Because if you look at the beginning of ethics in Western culture, you see a very different idea of what ethics also could be. For Aristotle, ______ was not about the question, "Is that still good, or is it bad?" Ethics was about the question of how to live life well. And he put that in the word "arête," which we, from [Ancient Greek], translate as "virtue." But really, it means "excellence." It means ______ up to your own full potential as a human being.

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Original Text

But in fact, that question, "Is it 'still' ethical?" is just one way of looking at ethics. Because if you look at the beginning of ethics in Western culture, you see a very different idea of what ethics also could be. For Aristotle, ethics was not about the question, "Is that still good, or is it bad?" Ethics was about the question of how to live life well. And he put that in the word "arête," which we, from [Ancient Greek], translate as "virtue." But really, it means "excellence." It means living up to your own full potential as a human being.

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