Essays on Virtue Ethics

MacIntyre set out to respond to the potential criticism that there is no core conception of the virtues to be found among the many rival conceptions. He goes over rival accounts of the virtues by Homer, Aristotle, the New Testament, and Benjamin Franklin. MacIntrye contends…

What is the Concept of Virtue Ethics? The focal point of Aristotle’s moral framework is for mankind to understand their good and moral character. This is achieved by practicing our remarkable attribute, which is the ability to reason, so by studying and practicing good moral…

A woman gets assaulted by a drunkard in front of a crowd. As a person in the crowd would you help or stand by and watch the woman as she screams for help? Your decision to this incident would be led by your moral principles….

Throughout this course of Ethics and Moral Theories, many different theoretical styles have been profiled and discussed. We have delved into the theories of Egoism, Divine Command, Relativism, Natural Law, Consequentialism, Kantianism, and Virtue ethics. Each theory poses different credible philosophies, but each theory also…

When thinking about ethics, one would naturally assume that moral principles are what guide one’s actions. For example, if one of my moral principles is that killing is wrong, then killing an individual would go against that moral principle and I would therefore make ethical…

Virtue ethics dates back to Aristotle (348-322 BCE), and it does not focus on the action of being right or wrong but on how to be a good person. It looks on what makes a good person and the qualities or virtues that make them…