Health Ethics Poster - Plato Term Paper by Top Papers

The paper discusses how Plato is used more than any philosopher; when a nurse makes an ethical decision, she or he will be using Plato whether they know it or not. The paper relates that Plato began the development of four areas of philosophy: ethics, epistemology, aesthetics, and metaphysics, and Plato was most concerned with justice and his ideas about justice are mainly found in his book "The Republic". The paper notes that also in this book is the kind of ethics that a nurse or other health care provider might use, virtue ethics, and the importance of virtue ethics is that it is all about moral preparation.