What is Virtue Ethics?

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Over the last couple of months, we’ve started to explore the world of Philosophy, and the role that ethics plays in our lives. We’ve touched on Utilitarianism & Consequentialism already, but now it’s time to venture into one of my favourite ethical theories – Virtue Ethics!

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What is Utilitarianism?

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Over the last few weeks, we’ve started to take a look at Philosophy & Ethics here on Sweeney’s Blogs, and I feel like we’ve finally got to a place where we can start looking at some of the different ethical theories that exist in the world, beginning with Utilitarianism today!

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What is Ethics?

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Philosophy is an area of study that I have loved delving into over the last year or so, and as I mentioned in my “Let’s talk about Ethical Perspectives” post, is something that I would love to start talking about here on Sweeney’s Blogs. We have already covered what we mean by the term ‘Ethical Perspectives”, so I think that the perfect place to go next would be to take a look at what we mean by ‘ethics’ 🙂

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Let’s talk about Ethical Perspectives

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Your Ethical Perspective/Standpoint plays a key role in how you see the world around you – in today’s blog, we are going to be taking a look at Ethical Perspectives, what they mean, and how they can influence your life.

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