Personal Framework Of Personal Ethics And Personal Moral Frameworks

Personal ethics plays an important role in every aspect of our lives. From the great classical philosophers, such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, to the more modern ones such as Immanuel Kant, philosophical ideologies have attempted to answer moral dilemmas such as right and wrong or good and evil for millennia. In this paper, I will discuss and share my personal ethical framework and how that framework applies to my personal and professional responsibilities.
Theories Aligned with Personal Moral Framework. Most of the philosophical theories on ethics attempt to answer questions related to the correct code of conduct regarding an individual or society. Often times, we use the word morality to help describe principle that help distinguish …show more content…
Here, like the Catholic Moral Tradition, the actions must be for good and the motives behind these must also be couple with the proper intention to do good, as well. This principle essentially focuses on character and includes traits such as caring, sincerity, justice, truthfulness, etc. Each of these characteristics, in my opinion, develops over time and becomes ingrained in us. These virtues correspond to essentially how God molds us and shapes us over time and through circumstances and even trials. I believe that we do good things and we develop these characteristics and embrace the Catholic Moral Tradition is because God has come into our lives and has changed us in such a way that doing these things becomes second-nature. It’s not so much what we do but really who we are. The Catholic Moral Tradition is wonderful in that it focuses on us becoming better individuals and because of that we can make the correct choices in everything we come …show more content…
One of the major tenets with this theory is that morality is based strictly on the intentions of an individual rather than on the consequences of an action itself. The problem with this aspect of this theory is that we can have the greatest intentions possible but still have catastrophic consequences. Secondly, Kant argued that for an act to be moral, that it must always be done from duty. The problem here is that if we adhere to the “wrong” moral laws to begin with, then even if we have and engage in perfect duty to those laws, then our actions would also be wrong by default. Then of course, those duties have to universal and without contradiction. The problem is that Kant would argue that moral laws are a priori and cannot change based on circumstance. So how is, then, it that humans, being rational, can also be a part of the creation of those moral laws? Kant’s theory appears to contradict