Choice Between Virtue and Duty Based Ethics

Choice Between Virtue and Duty Based Ethics

Essay – Please Choose One (make certain your essay is at least 5 paragraphs)

Essay – Please Choose One (make certain your essay is at least 5 paragraphs)

  1. Ought you to be a “good or right” individual? (should we follow virtue or duty based ethics) Please justify your thesis by creating a detailed proof for your system of choice and remember these concepts may be mutually exclusive.

2. How can you the author ensure that you receive an “A” on this examination? (Deduce a way to answer this question and then examine your possible actions by employing one of the ethical theories we discussed in class.

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Forms of Virtue Ethics

            Virtue ethics has four forms which agree that virtue is practical and central wisdom is requires in any action but differ in how they are combined. The first form is the eudaemonist virtue ethics, which define virtues based on the relationship they have with Eudaimonia, which means flourishment or happiness. The second form is the agent-based virtue ethics measures the rightness or wrongness of an action based on the dispositional qualities and motivation of an agent. The third form is the target centered virtue ethics, which defines that an action is right if it met the target that it was aimed to achieve. Finally, the…

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