Whether the center of morality is the kind of person an act expresses, rather than a rule or a total. A higher percent leans that way.
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Virtue ethics, drawing on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and revived in the twentieth century by Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, and Alasdair MacIntyre, asks what a good human life is and what stable traits express it. Right acts are what a person with practical wisdom would do, for the right reasons, in this particular case. Rules and outcomes still appear. They are not the center. These scenes are original. A high score is a virtue-ethical lean. It is not a claim that you possess the virtues.
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A hard case has a clear rule and a clear better total, and they conflict. A third question occurs to you. How much should it count?
Courage is on the table. Which description do you trust?
You can keep a promise or break it to produce a clearly better outcome. A mentor you respect would keep it, sadly, for reasons you can state.
Honesty has become inconvenient. What makes honesty a virtue rather than a policy?
A principle you like fits badly with this particular person in front of you. Practical wisdom would make an exception nobody could write into a code.
What is a flourishing life for a human being doing in a moral theory?
Someone does the helpful thing resentfully, for show. The help is real. How do you sort the act?
Emotion, in a good life, is best described how?
A life of repeated small acts and one dramatic calculation are both on offer as the picture of morality. Which do you trust?
You need to criticize a cruel policy. Which criticism feels like the one you mean?
A stranger asks you what morality is for. Which answer do you give?
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