Moral Dilemmas of Virtue Ethics Essay

someone’s outer image is; purity is also measured by how people behave behind closed doors and when nobody is around. Many individuals put on a show of exaggerated virtue when they know people are watching and immediately switch it off when they find themselves alone. In essence, some people who seem to be abhorrent may have a well-directed moral compass that they keep hidden away. Cannery Row, a novel by John Steinbeck, is set during the Great Depression in Monterey, California, and is centered…

future repercussions, not due to a genuine desire to do what is good and reflects justice. Glaucon expresses that without the worry of unfavorable consequences and opinions of society it is likely that the righteous and ethical man would abandon his virtues and instead adapt habits that bring forth pleasure and self -fulfillment. Socrates, Glaucon’s debate partner, unquestionably disagrees with him, fiercely arguing that organic and long-term euphoria stems only from leading a “good” and…

Stuart Mill, and Immanuel Kant. These three philosophers are arguably the most famous philosophers in the branch of normative ethics. Normative ethics deals with the moral standards that regulate our actions and categorize them as whether they’re right or wrong. The theories of ethics consist of Aristotle's Virtue Ethics, Mill's Utilitarianism, and Kant's Deontological Ethics. I believe that Aristotle’s theory is closer to the truth than the others. However, they all have positives and negatives…

Q2: Galing Pook and Good Governance A) How did the concept of Good Governance occur in your galing pook case? The galing pook case I have chosen is the SARAGANI case wherein it took take a look at the programs in Sarangani Province. We all know how good governance is all about one major aim: GOODNESS in the society. Good governance was indeed very apparent in my galing pook case in Sarangani. Saragani is located in Mindanao whereas war is present everywhere. Saragani has all the means to be…

to reach their American Dream. In this novel, James Gatz’s goal, aka Jay Gatsby, is to become rich, make something of himself and marry Daisy in order to improve his social status. He does end up becoming very rich, but not without compromising his morals. Gatsby’s…

Confucian ren has been used in many ways. Ren is the ideal moral character to achieve that is grounded in human nature. Karyn Lai calls ren a dynamic concept as it “denotes both specific relational attachment (renkinship) and compassion for others (rencompassion)” (Lai 2008:62). How can this be so since one is a form of partial love and the other impartial love? Which takes precedence and what is their relationship? In this essay, I will first lay out Confucius’ view on ren and explain how it is…

Kantian Ethics of The Stranger Meursault follows the doctrine of Kantian ethics. Followers of Kant believe that you should act in a way you expect others to act. He helps people out in their time of need, he conforms to his sense of duty when making important life decisions, and he assumes responsibility for his actions when he does not adhere to his principles. In Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, Immanuel Kant spoke of the categorical imperative. Imperatives come in two kinds:…

action to have moral worth, there must be an act of right motivation, along with doing the right thing; if the act has moral worth it must be done in a sense of obligation to do the right thing. There can be good actions done with wrong motives, making them not have moral worth. “I ought never to act except in such a way that…

Deontology is the action by an individual to adhere to his own independent morals and any related rules and regulations. This concept is closely related to ethics where an individual performs a certain action due to the morality behind it or the duty associated with the action. In the situation of professional setups, a person is required to adhere to certain rules and regulations as a form of duty. Disclosure of information that may be considered private is one such action. While in some…

McGrath’s Perceptual Account of Moral Knowledge In this section, I will first distinguish and consider different variants of moral perception. Then, I will make clear where McGrath’s distinctive account sits in the broader family of all moral perception views. In general, moral perception views of moral knowledge reject P2 of the moral regress argument sketched in the preceding section. For proponents of moral perception, we get, at the very least, some of our moral knowledge non-inferentially…