Ethics And Virtue Ethics

The first section was an introduction to the concept of ethics and morals. Morals and ethics were defined and the difference between them was established.

Consequentialism is moral choose based on the outcome; working very similarly to cost-benefit analyzes. It uses common sense to come to conclusions and everyone including the user is equally considered in the conclusion. Utilitarianism is a form of consequentialism that uses happiness as the basis of determining if a choice is good or not. It is important to factor in both the quality and quantity of happiness. Utilitarianism fails when consequences are unpredictable. Also it does not take into account if an action is good or bad, like stealing or murder.
Deontology or Kantianism takes
Aristotle believed that to be a good person you had to have intellectual and moral virtues and that good people learned goodness from the people they interacted with. Also Aristotle believed that all beings has an inherent goal that they try to reach; for humans it is complete development of talents and morals. One problem with virtue ethics is that there is no way to morally make decisions in complex situation; the best way to handle a difficult decision is to ask one’s self what one’s idol would
If you push the guy, three people will be happy and alive and they will benefit from your decision, but two people who will not benefit, one will be died and the other, you, will just not benefit. Since three happy, alive people out weighs two unhappy people. So pushing the guys is morally right in this case.
For deontology, we first need a general principle based on the action that you have to do; “pushing someone is ok” or maybe “killing people is ok.” But the second statement is a consideration of the consequence so that does not follow the rule. Next we have to universalize the statement; do I want someone to push me? The answer is probably no, leading to a failed test, which means that you are morally obligated to just stand there and let things happen.
Last is virtue ethics, which is the trickiest to simulate because decisions are based on your role model as the example for the way you choose. If Jesus was our role model then that means we would probably let it happen because one of the Ten Commandments is about not killing others so you may just stand there. Or maybe if Spock from Star Trek was your role model you would push the guy because “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the