Ethics and Capital Punishment

Capital punishment can be defined as the judicially ordered execution or death of a convict as punishment for a serious crime. The ethical question regarding capital punishment is a longstanding. It has a relatively simple answer, and is perhaps best answered through the rule utilitarianism model. Rule utilitarianism offers the best choice in the long run, by setting a precedent to be followed, in this case relating to punishment and penology.

The virtues are personalities to accomplish functions as a person correctly. They are a matter not only of accomplishment the right acts but of doing them for the right reason, which is to say choosing the virtuous acts for their own sake. The virtues can be further divided into intellectual virtues and moral virtues. Intellectual virtues are a material of the appropriate use of one's reason. Moral virtues organize the non-rational part of one to be directed by one's reason.

It was Aristotle who purposed that ethics were actually or should actually be a separate forum or field from theological sciences. In the field of ethics, which are in good actions, many oversimplifications hold power. Aristotle decided upon the argument that the virtues of ethics should be leading to a well-lived life. Virtues such as temperance, courage, justice, compassion and the like are measured by Aristotle to be difficult rational, emotional and social skills. Aristotle disagree with Plato's ideals that one must seek preparation in the sciences and the metaphysics as sort of a precondition before one can have a full understanding of these ethical virtues in our choices. Aristotle's belief that an act of good or bad contributes, to whether or not those acts lead to our proper human happy, end.

In truth ethics in its base form ethics and moral philosophies have been around for thousands of years. It cannot mistake ethics or the history of ethics to be a methodology of our moral structure. Ethics does not consist of only a tale of...