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PHI 105 Week 5 Checkpoint - Moral Character Viewpoints

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Moral Character Viewpoints CheckPoint
The moral character viewpoint that the majority of my class agreed upon is that
others can influence both our habits and moral character. The common
justification for this concept was that part of our moral character is innate and the
rest is developed through family, friends, our environment, and society as a whole.
Many of our habits are directly affected by others, considering that peers are a
major influence on the development of many of our good and bad habits. The
majority of the students in my class seemed to agree that different choices in life
and different influences in our lives will most certainly affect the habits we pick up
and the moral character we develop.
The most heated debates between me and my classmates were concerning
the idea that people who do bad things have bad moral character, plain and simple.
I disagree with this idea and stand firm on my theory that actions that demonstrate
bad moral character depend upon three things: the individual, the circumstances,
and the individual’s intent. I feel strongly that an individual who does something
they know is wrong but shows no conscience or remorse towards the action is
morally corrupt; while an individual that does something they know is wrong but
has reasons for doing so and feels regret is not morally corrupt. To me, this is the
difference between making bad choices and having bad morals. For every example
of bad morality, there are small changes you can make to the situation to turn it
into a bad choice driven by circumstances.
I think the classmates that opposed my view on moral character may be
thinking in a traditional way, because viewpoints that seem a bit rigid and black-
and-white tend to follow traditional standards. On the other hand, my ideas display
modern ethical thinking, because my ideas come from thinking a bit more “outside
the box”.

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