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Virtue Ethics and Ethical Egoism
Wk2RobinsonK
03/12/2017
Using the Ethical Analysis Tool, this paper will review the moral justification in using the ring of Gyges for my own benefit from a virtue ethicist’s position. It will also explain if a virtual ethicist and an ethical egoist take the same situation. Virtue ethics is defined as the virtue of a person in doing one’s duty or acting in a way to bring about good consequences. A virtuous person can be described as one with typical character traits always questioning proper social and family values and who is kind simply because that is their character and not because they look to gain something from it. Most noble act in virtuous ways resulting from their instincts or their own rational thought. …show more content…
A person's character is made up of traits. Some of those traits are virtues, and others are vices. Ethical egoism is defined as people having moral obligations only to themselves. Ethical egoism is when one thinks their importance is greater over other in spite of the fact they are no different from the other(s) and therefore this claim cannot be justified.
About the ring of Gyges, Glaucon (Plato’s brother) asks if a man can be virtuous enough that he can fight off the temptation of stealing. According to the text, if someone obtains the power of invisibility, and never doing anything wrong, he is considered an idiot (Plato. (n.d.). The Republic, 2012). As a virtual ethicist, I ask myself if the theft of the money is justifiable. And to me, yes it is. Taking property not belonging to me is never justified, but in some
Virtue Ethics and Ethical Egoism
Wk2RobinsonK
03/12/2017
Using the Ethical Analysis Tool, this paper will review the moral justification in using the ring of Gyges for my own benefit from a virtue ethicist’s position. It will also explain if a virtual ethicist and an ethical egoist take the same situation. Virtue ethics is defined as the virtue of a person in doing one’s duty or acting in a way to bring about good consequences. A virtuous person can be described as one with typical character traits always questioning proper social and family values and who is kind simply because that is their character and not because they look to gain something from it. Most noble act in virtuous ways resulting from their instincts or their own rational thought. …show more content…
A person's character is made up of traits. Some of those traits are virtues, and others are vices. Ethical egoism is defined as people having moral obligations only to themselves. Ethical egoism is when one thinks their importance is greater over other in spite of the fact they are no different from the other(s) and therefore this claim cannot be justified.
About the ring of Gyges, Glaucon (Plato’s brother) asks if a man can be virtuous enough that he can fight off the temptation of stealing. According to the text, if someone obtains the power of invisibility, and never doing anything wrong, he is considered an idiot (Plato. (n.d.). The Republic, 2012). As a virtual ethicist, I ask myself if the theft of the money is justifiable. And to me, yes it is. Taking property not belonging to me is never justified, but in some