Aristotle And Confucius Analysis

Dr. Fang presented an ethics discussion on the subject of “Ethics-Comparing Confucius and Aristotle” on Wednesday, December 7, 2016. Confucius once said “What I do not wish men to do to me, I also wish not to do to men.” This relates to the Golden Rule and Reciprocity. This is known as do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Aristotle’s personal virtues are as follows, “Never take any action which is not honest, open and truthful, and which you would not be proud to see reported widely in national newspapers and on network news programs.” This, in my opinion, talks about one’s reputation. If you are not satisfied with how others would view your actions, then those actions should not happen. Along with the idea of Reciprocity, …show more content…
Living with someone who has hygiene issues and room cleanliness issues is not always the easiest. Again, as with the RA example, it can lead to ruining a friendship or hiding your true feelings. Thinking under the personal virtues of Aristotle, I thought about how I would want to be perceived. Would I want people to assume I had the cleanliness issues as well or did I just want to figure out a new roommate situation, where I could start from scratch and hopefully, be happy living with someone else? I went with the latter, by giving a warning by trying to create cleaning schedules, however, unfortunately it did not work, ending the friendship between me and my past roommate. I believe it was the most ethical situation in my …show more content…
Every month, I would check all reconciliations with their corresponding computer account balances. Each team member had a certain amount of reconciliations to do and would hand them to me at the end of the month, where I would sign and date it if it was correct. One day I was called into my manager’s office as he told me I wrote the wrong date on the papers and that the person who created the reconciliations was correct. It was embarrassing and I fixed the problem, however as I was investigating the problem, it wasn’t me that wrote the wrong date. In that moment, I had an ethical situation I had to deal with. Would it be better to take the blame so that a full-time worker did not get in trouble, I wasn’t going to be there much longer, or would it be better, for my reputation, if I stuck up for myself and proved that I was correct. I ended up speaking to my manager about the situation and proving that I was right, because after all, when thinking in accordance to Aristotle, I would rather a good reputation if it was reported widely in national newspapers and on network news