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    Ans: - A virtue is a positive trait to be morally good and it valued as a foundation of principle and well human being. Personal virtues are also play a crucial role to value as promoting and individual greatness. Virtue ethics identified as the one that emphasizes the virtue or moral character. It emphasizes ethical duties and rules or emphasizes the consequences of particular action. It is a moral characteristics that a person needs to live well. Also it suggests that what are the way to build a good society is to help its members to be good people rather than to prevent bad actions using laws and punishments. Virtue deals with the rightness or wrongness of individual actions as well as it provides guidance of characteristics and behaviors of a good will find to achieve. Justice requires…

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    Honesty Is A Virtue?

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    Honesty is a virtue. Therefore honesty truly is the best policy. Honesty is the foundation of any on track well-working relationship. Regardless of the relationship whether it's with parents,friends,teachers honesty is really important. Neither of the relationships mentioned earlier would be successful without trust, loyalty, that is gained from being honest. If you are dishonest you will find yourself in situations where you will have to tell one or two lies to avoid getting in trouble. I…

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    Aristotle's Virtue

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    When exploring the good life, one has to explore what virtues are. Aristotle explains virtues by using three terms; emotions, potentialities and states of character. Everyone can experience a range of emotions, this does not make them good or bad. However, a person’s state of character can suggest good or bad. Emotions have the potential to become out of balance, which then affects one’s states of character. The state’s character provides a person with reasoning to whether their emotions are…

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    Virtue Happiness

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    And, we know that “no one is a wise man by nature,” so wisdom is a virtue acquired by habit. Since it is necessary for a person to become wise in order to be rewarded by the gods, virtue is the first step towards good fortune, and thus εὐδαιμονία. Yet, εὐδαιμονία and good fortune are not the same. Even if virtuous people cannot have εὐδαιμονία without any good fortune, they do not need a lot of good fortune and no one can have εὐδαιμονία just by the possession of good fortune; we can see that…

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    Aristotle's Virtues

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    Aristotle is one of the most well known Greek philosophers who laid most of the groundwork for western philosophy along with Socrates and Plato. He was born in Stagira, Greece around 384 BC. He shared his work throughout his entire life in Athens and at the school he opened called The Lyceum. Aristotle is also known to have tutored Alexander the Great. His work varied from topics such as biology, logic and mainly ethics. Aristotle died in 322 BC but his legacy carries on because of the relevance…

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    Virtue Ethics

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    In the first day of the presentations, all three cases are all clearly flawed ethically. It was quite obvious how each theory will evaluate the cases. To me, the group that stood out was the Enron case. Among all the students who present about the Enron case, the two person using Virtue ethics caught my attentions. In total, there are six components in Virtue Ethics, each of the presenters usd different ones to evaluate Enron. The first person used role identity and integrity, and he claimed…

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    Aristotle Virtue

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    Aristotle defines virtue as finding the proper balance between two extremes which are excess (having too much of something), and deficiency (having too little of something). That being said I do not believe that this model works for all the human virtues. When you think of virtue, you think of the behaviors that are morally important to you. Virtue includes people’s feelings and actions. When it comes down to excess and deficiency it is relative to us, which I believe could be different for…

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    Professional ethics has been an essential topic for engineers to comply to. This concept of professional ethics can be categorized into three varieties: prohibitive ethics, preventive ethics, and virtue ethics. Virtue ethics emphasizes the concept for engineers to promote the qualities of a character and also the quality of life of the people. This is supported by the Texas Engineer Practice Act where it is stated that: “Engineers shall be entrusted to protect the health, safety, property, and…

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    Aristotle's Virtue Theory

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    Engineering is a practice that relies very heavily on the virtues of the engineer whether they are professional or not. Virtue is the behavior of showing high moral standards, which is critical for when engineers are faced with tough decisions on how to proceed with distasteful situations such as the Challenger. Before I dive into the virtues I believe are important for my career path, I must first explain what virtue means. Aristotle has a widely known definition of this theory which is why I…

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    Virtue Ethics Essay

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    ENGR 482-930 Short Paper 2 Word Count: 925 The first line of NSPE code section II.1.a reads “Engineers shall hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public.” Engineers should primarily be concerned with the safety and welfare of the public. Virtue ethics states that a person should make choices that reinforce good character and strive to become a virtuous person because people of good character will ultimately be people who make good decisions. A virtue ethics perspective would…

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