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    Virtue ethicist may be defined as concepts that emphasize the role of character and virtue in moral theory rather than making difference through action. They emphasis on undertakings that encourages or makes a person more generous or benevolent. According to Aristotle virtue are of two kinds; intellectual virtue which originate from birth and grows from teaching and through experience and time. The second one is moral virtue which comes through human habits especially one that is hard to give up

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    Kantian Virtue Ethics

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    Ethics is an attempt to offer a rational response to answer how humans best live their lives, as argued by Aristotle. Thus the nature of human well-being. For Aristotle, man has a ‘nature’ that is definite and makes it worthwhile to be a human being. This nature is reached through virtuously flourishing, which is argued to be reached when we reason well. Aristotle takes an agent-centered approach to answer the question of how one should efficiently ethically live, therefore informing ethics.

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    Problem Of Virtue Ethics

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    in other words, the main problem is the lack of ethics and virtues in business that have resulted in wicked outcomes which affected on only businesses but the society in general as well. In his essay entitled “Vocational Virtue Ethics: Prospects for a Virtue Ethic Approach to Business”, David McPherson concludes by proposing a number of solutions as to how business organizations must overcome this problem that challenges to vocational virtue ethics. In this essay, I focus on analyzing three of

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    Initially, my understanding of ethics was merely to determine what is right and wrong in certain situations. Although, after learning about Utilitarianism, Deontology, and Virtue Ethics, I have realized that certain characteristics of each play a role in determining what ethics truly are. Utilitarianism characterizes the definition of ethics, by making all choices have the greatest positive impact, while minimizing the risk. Deontology on the other hand would rather we not get involved because there

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    Decline Of Virtue Ethics

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    “Achieving a Decent Society” See The Decline of Virtue Ethics in the Modern Society and Its Different Forms The Modern Society The modern society may be moving forward in terms of scientific and technological advancements yet as years go by, the development of ethics and morality tends to move backward. Due to our utmost fascination to material advancements, we tend to forget what truly matters. According to Smith (2014), the modern society rewards material progress while neglecting moral progress

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    Virtue ethics is a theory that usually has a role of character and virtue in the world of moral philosophy rather than either doing one’s duty or acting in order to bring about good consequences. In some article they said that some people that give professional advice about moral are called virtue ethicist. When talking about virtue ethics theories, you need to understand that it came from Aristotle who declared that, “a virtuous person is someone who has ideal character traits.” He also said that

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    Virtue ethics is considered as one of the three major approaches in normative ethics. The founding fathers of Virtue ethics are Plato and more particularly Aristotle. “It suffered a momentary eclipse during the nineteenth century but re-emerged in the late 1950’s in Anglo-American philosophy” (Virtue Ethics , 2012). The re-emergence had an effect on the other two approaches. The consequence of this is the fact that is now necessary to distinguish “virtue ethics” from “virtue theory. Kant’s virtue

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    Virtues of Happiness & Moral Ethics An individual’s virtue ethics does not depend on the society that they live in, the spirituality that they follow, or their culture/upbringing; but they depend exclusively on the individuals themselves. Aristotle introduced moral ethics theory in his Nicomachean Ethics books. The idea of ethics is questioning long term goals, ‘what sort of person do I want to be’ instead of instantaneous decisions that question ‘what should I do in this situation?’ Virtues are

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    What Is Virtue Ethics

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    about the environment within and virtues. Christian virtue ethics focus on the end of an act instead of on the consequences because the end says more about the agent (p.164, M). If one person does something that doesn't seem of good virtue, then Christian virtue won't judge that person till the end because their means for doing something could be different than one thinks. The goal of virtue ethics is not better decisions but better deciders (p.164, M). Virtue ethics is about an individual making a

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    Virtue Ethics' Application to Business Ethics As with all forms of ethics, whilst written about in a general sense the ethical thought appear a feasible process and an appropriate way to act and behave, it however needs to stand up against certain moral issues to ‘test’ its fallibility. Business ethics would be one such example. Aristotle, the farther of virtue ethics felt community care is the reason for the market system. A business would be selfless economic

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