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Compare And Contrast Professional And Virtue Ethics

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Critically evaluate two of the moral theories

Ethics have many kinds first we talk about professional and virtue ethics then we discussed Utilitarianism. Although the criteria of virtue ethics are bigger as we compare to professional ethics. Virtue ethics is emphasized upon the role of one's character and one's character expressed determination and evaluation of ethical behavior. Virtue ethics is one of the approaches that belong to normative ethics. Normative ethics is often opposite from deontology. The reason is that deontology emphasizes upon duties that derived from rules and consequences that derived from current situation. These things derived right or wrong side from the outcome of anyone’s act that he and she performed like Ralf …show more content…

One thinks that if he or she agreed with the offer of installing one’s software because it did not hurt anyone and not is bad or contradict with society’s norms (Darwall, 2002).
Utilitarianism is related to normative ethics. In it we consider that best moral actions are those that maximize the utility level. But we define utility in a large spectrum that is related to well-being of any person. Jeremy Bentham is the creator of Utilitarianism. According to him utility is the pleasure that we achieved after deducting our pains. It is focused upon rules instead of moral actions of any individual.
We use this type of ethics in our daily life frequently. When somebody asked us to explain about our feeling then we are bound to do some actions, we like good actions and avoid bad. The word utility is very due to the reasoning of actions. Sometime one’s pain gives pleasure of others. Utilitarianism is linked with straightforwardness in decision matters and keeps in mind the moral side of any action for any situation in which we find …show more content…

Second, we keep our mind all the benefits and damages that appeared as a result of our actions and check that are effect by our actions. Third step is that after analyzing the consequences, we choose the most suitable set of action that provides us maximum benefits after the costs that we have taken to attain it into account (West, 2004).
After the passage of time the area of utilitarianism is expanded and appeared as a most refined shape. So that today we have plenty of variations of this ethical theory. For example, Bentham just explains the concept of benefits and problems in term of pleasure and pain. Bentham John Stuart Mill, explain the concept of utilitarianism in the form benefits and harms not in just pleasure and pain he explain in term of the quality and intensity of any pleasure and pain. Today utilitarian’s describe benefits and harms in most scientific way. They explain it in term of satisfaction and personal preferences (Hayry,

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