Utilitarianism Vs Individual Virtue Ethics

Two ideas that are important in the lesson are understanding all of the different types of ethics and understanding that morals are necessary. Each different form of ethics are needed to complete the whole concept of ethics and the need for morals has always been around. Utilitarianism focuses on the fact that morals have guide lines, you should only do what gives you the most happiness, and this is balanced out by rule and act utilitarianism. Deciding when the overall happiness is in fact more important than individual happiness and when overall happiness is not more important than the happiness of the few. Virtues give us great specific characteristic values to try and follow that can personally turn us into better human beings. Care ethics …show more content…
It also shows that it is something that is known for being important throughout history. After learning that it seems like it is a big part of history that is taken for granted. If we paid more attention to ethics in today’s world more issues would be resolved since we have a better forms of government. People have more power today through voting than ever before. Ethics is something that has been evolving with us as time goes. This shows us that in our quest for better moral standards we have also grown and found out we need more fundamentals to what is really means to have a better quality of life. I think that these ideas will continue to grow as different issues and challenged come up in the …show more content…
Like utilitarianism, I think that everyone on earth wants to be happy and have a better life. The idea of a global consciousness changed how I think. If people can be in tuned with the people around then and have positive relationships that would make a huge impact on quality of life as well as human interaction with the environment. If we can apply more of the care ethics into how we see the environment through communities more positive change will happen. People working together who really care and can be logical at the same time can make the biggest impact on how we view and treat our environment. Humanity needs this in communities to take reasonability for what is around then specifically. In the end I believe we need pieces of them all to continue to lean and grow to become a more ethically driven