Virtue And Duty-Based Ethics

1) With duty-based ethics it’s about obedience of law, performing an act morally because it’s out of duty. The act is based on the fact that it’s our obligation, we do the duty out of oughtness. Virtue ethics is different from duty-based ethics as one is not acting out of oughtness or duty, but out of motivation and feelings. Acting on moral character. Virtue ethics would be to perform an act for example out of love for a mother who is ill; you take care of her because of the love you have for her not because it your duty.
2) His virtue ethics are teleological as we perform an action that not only we want to be virtuous in the action, but we strive to be a particular type of person. Virtue ethics involves moral conduct that would come from a person’s moral character. To fulfill a proper function, it says that life is teleological where were not meant to be something but to aspire towards something.
3) He says that in order to achieve Eudaimonia we as humans must perform a function that comes natural and distinctive to them. They must live in full in accord with reason. A life with reason is a life of virtue.
4) Moral virtue: Honesty – telling your parent the truth that you didn’t pass you exam instead of lying to them. Courage – Rosa Parks having the courage to refuse to give up her seat in the bus