William Hundert Ethics

From Greek times, many philosophies have been concerned about the nature of virtues and vices. A great moral philosopher, Aristotle one day said, "We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit." Those are factors which define the personality or character of an individual. In every circumstance, the way a person naturally act determined his/her human quality, and life. As humans, we have the goal for achieve a good living and hence, happiness. This perspective of life is based on the decisions that we make along our life and it is not only one act which determine it, what really we are as an individual. All of this is acquired through reasoning. According to the previous statements, we are going to …show more content…
He is a classic history professor with strong believe in principles in life. Hundert play an important paper in the life of his students along the movie as educator to form and built future generation prospective. His attitude toward other people in the movie included a virtue of respect. Around the movie, Hundert act with prudent in a discussion or argument with his students and people above him. He sometime assumed a defensive position to protect his integrity when his students or boss intent to corrupt their principles or beliefs. In any time, Hundert seen completely deference or with an attitude to treat someone unfairly to in order to benefit from their work. He also possess a virtue of understanding and/or forgiveness when other people make a offense to him. In many situation, Hundert, as a professor, have the character to comprehend and give another opportunity to those who make a mistake or show disrespectful to him. He did not express any grudge and resentment to his students and other people, because Hundert understands that people deserve another chance in life or they could make change in their life. It is for that reason that he did not say anything and led Bell to