According to utilitarianism, I should not have stopped doing my homework due to the consequences of me not turning an assignment in the next day or having to stay up late to finish the assignment that night. However, I felt I needed to do so because of my own morality. It would not have virtuous to let her cry while I sat across the room from her doing homework. This example also reveals that virtue ethics considers the person as a whole and not just the actions that they preform, which is another major facet of the philosophy. Whereas, rule-based ethics can divide human life into moral situations and unmoral situations. In comparison, virtue ethics emphasizes the character traits that will persist beyond those situations. However, one major criticism of it is that there are not enough definitive rules. But David Solomon points out that it can guide others to make their own moral
According to utilitarianism, I should not have stopped doing my homework due to the consequences of me not turning an assignment in the next day or having to stay up late to finish the assignment that night. However, I felt I needed to do so because of my own morality. It would not have virtuous to let her cry while I sat across the room from her doing homework. This example also reveals that virtue ethics considers the person as a whole and not just the actions that they preform, which is another major facet of the philosophy. Whereas, rule-based ethics can divide human life into moral situations and unmoral situations. In comparison, virtue ethics emphasizes the character traits that will persist beyond those situations. However, one major criticism of it is that there are not enough definitive rules. But David Solomon points out that it can guide others to make their own moral