Essays on Virtue Ethics

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….

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…

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…