Virtue Ethical Theory

In this situation two people are given the option to either go to Cancun with friends for some spring break fun or they could travel to Haiti to help repair the community from the recent hurricane. Person one has no doubt of what they what they want to do for their spring break, and chooses to go to Haiti to help, the other person, however, is reluctant in their decision. They both decide to go to Haiti, but both have very different reasoning for going to help. In this paper, it will be determined who acted more morally than the other under the lens of Kantian ethics and under virtue ethics. Under Kantian ethics the more ethical person would be the one who went even though they were reluctant, the reasoning behind this will be further discussed …show more content…
Virtue ethics are different that other ethical theories because it is focused around a person’s character instead of their actions. Their actions reflect their character. Virtue ethics lead a person to ask what kind of behaviors should become habits or ‘second-nature’ for a person to do and what moral exemplars would do in a given situation. A moral exemplar is a person who has been a very good example of what it would look like to live a virtuous life. Possessing certain characteristics makes a person moral under the virtue ethics theory and most of these characteristics are developed and instilled in a person during their …show more content…
Despite what could be seen as making the right decision based off of which spring break trip would bring the most overall happiness, she was not fully into being there in Haiti and may have not been as likely to work as harder as the other people working on the rebuilding. Some objections that could possibly be made against the theory of virtue ethics view would be that Tim felt obligated to help in Haiti, but grew up to know that others come first before anything else including himself and his