Agent-Based Accounts Of Virtue Ethics

Introduction

Ethics is a part of philosophy that deal with the morality of human. It also concerned with distinguishing between right and wrong of human act, good and bad in the society, and between honest and deceitful characteristics of people. In reality, ethics solves to the problems of human morality by providing solutions in relating to the concepts of right and wrong, good and immoral, virtue and vice, fairness and crime. Modern philosophers have categorized ethical theories into three, they are: metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics. But in this paper, I will concentrate on virtue theories which is one of a strategy under normative ethics.

“Virtue Ethics is a classification within Normative Ethics that attempts to discover and classify what might be deemed of moral character, and to apply the moral character as a

This type of virtue theory can be understood in the view point of Aristotle. “Aristotle recognizes that actions are not pointless because they have an aim”. Each intention has a bit of good. For example, a mechanic dismantle of a car has an intention or repairing it, a contractor destroying a land aims at getting a good accommodation for people and many others. “Aristotle claims that all the things that are ends in themselves also contribute to a wider end, an end that is the greatest good of all”

Agent-Based Accounts of Virtue Ethics is based on common-sense intuitions about a particular character traits which is marvelous. This has also been divided into agent-focused and agent-based theories by Michael Slote.” Agent-focused theories understand the moral life in terms of what it is to be a virtuous individual, where the virtues are inner dispositions. Aristotelian theory is an example of an agent-focused theory. By contrast, agent-based theories are more radical in that their evaluation of actions is dependent on ethical judgments about the inner life of the agents who perform those