As different as our fingerprints are, are our views on the world. A large area that views differ is when it comes to morality. There are many different moral theories from Kantian to Utilitarian, but the one I feel that I identify most with is that of virtue ethics. This one seemed like something that I would think of because it is based on the type of person you are and the choices you make instead of a set of rules, which do not apply to many situations occurring now.
             It is not easy to get one's emotions in harmony with one's rational recognition of certain reasons for action. One may be honest enough to recognize that one must own up to a mistake because it would be dishonest not to do so without my acceptance being so wholehearted that one can own up easily, with no inner conflict.
             Another good point about it is how it encourages you to acquire good traits, and get rid of the bad ones. Meaning that everyone can be a good person, it is just a matter of changing, but you change to your own standards not someone else's. Virtues can be corrective, they can help one do something that would have been hard for them to do because they know that it is the correct thing to do. But certain things are not right for all people, people differ in their natural inclinations and thus this makes what virtues are important to them differ also.
             It is based on what kind of person you are and want to be, on how you treat the people around you, the traits you possess such as honesty and fairness.
             The concept of a virtue is the concept of something that makes its possessor good: a virtuous person is a morally good, excellent or admirable person who acts and feels well, rightly, as she should. A virtue according to Aristotle is the mean between two extremes. You should not have enough fear so that it keeps you from acting or too much which will make you look pompous. Just the right mean of the extremes, so that the virtues can be b...