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Ethical systems can be principled, but still contain reasonable exceptions without being purely relativistic. I acknowledge that there are many different types of moral situations under which one must apply one's principles.
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My moral system most closely mirrors what could be called a 'virtue ethics' position: I believe in moral standards, but I believe that learning how to be a virtuous and compassionate person who is empathetic to others is the best way to live morally in the world (Hursthouse 2007). It is important to have high standards and yet to also be able to apply those standards to the complexities of real-life situations. Virtue ethics is not totally subjectivist in nature -- total subjectivism suggests that everyone decides what is moral based upon his or her own 'gut instinct' about the specifics of the...
Being a moral person means having some personal sense of a larger ethical idea, such as not always putting one's self first.
Morality is a negotiation with one's environment: for example, is it ethical to want to make a large amount of money, possibly hurting other people, to better the life of one's family? Virtue ethics suggests that certain ethical standards hold true for all time, such as our obligations to the poor -- but also to our families. Trying to find a workable compromise with reality is the nature of virtue ethics: striving to have a strong enough compass to enforce ethical systems, and know how to bend them without breaking them.
Works Cited
Hursthouse, Rosalind. "Virtue ethics." The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
2007. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-virtue/
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