moral ethics

from Reasons for “Correctness” moral ethics

• Assumption that if you act according to virtue, you will be happy.
• Socrates: “I have said that it is important to follow justice, and it is against justice for me to break out of prison, and I would not be happy to survive it, so I die.”
• Each person’s “happiness” is different.
• Is fraud good if someone thinks, “It is righteous to cheat the stupid rich out of their money and then distribute it to poor children?”
  • It’s assumed that each individual is an autonomous, rational being, so this is going to be “good” for him or her.
• Anscombe, “Obligation theory and utilitarianism are action-centered and not good; virtue ethics is actor-centered.”
• Obligations and utilitarianism only provide norms, not motivate people to them.
• If virtues were diverse, society wouldn’t work. - communitarianism McIntyre. - I can only answer “What should I do?” if I can answer “In what story will I find my part?”
  • Obligationalism and utilitarianism have abandoned the individual, so they cannot express the “role of the individual.”
    • There is information that has been left out as a result of ethics’ attempts to define the universal good.

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