Essays on Virtue Ethics

Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley in the early nineteenth century, tells the tale of a genius, Victor Frankenstein, who creates a man-monster whose name is eventually mispronounced as Frankenstein. Victor creates a creature that he comes to despise as a result of his discovery of a way to give inanimate…

The foundation of moral laws can be regarded as the right action or behaviour. The Virtue Ethics that deal with an individual’s moral acts are based on these laws. Therefore, in Chapter 12 of the book The Aspect of Moral Philosophy written by James Rachels, I respond to the ethics…