Introduction
Everything in life has a cause and effect; there are a limitless number of causes and effects that going into makes a person who they are how they decide to live their life. This fact is what makes ethics a fascinating thing to study because it goes to the core of we chose to live the way that we do and what is the causes that resulted in the effect of why we make the choices we make every day. I am going to look over what causes have affected me to make the choices I do, what style of philosophical approach this puts me in, and compare myself to someone else on the basis of ethical thinking.
Philosophical Approaches
The three philosophical approaches focused on in chapter two of the Trevino and Nelson text virtue ethics, consequentialism, deontological. If I were to rank these three philosophical approaches my order would be deontological, virtue ethics, and consequentialism. I would place the approaches in this order because first deontological focuses on doing the right thing and following my own set moral principles which I feel is the best way to make decision and most follows the way I view ethics. Next is virtue ethics, I chose this approach second because though it does not focus specifically on the action it still is based on being a “good” person and striving to do the right things when making decision even though the choices may end up with negative consequences. I would place consequentialism last because I feel that focusing more on the consequences of an action then the action itself can through my set of morals lead a person to do immoral things. Since I have ranked a deontological focus as my top choice I would choose it as my one philosophical approach to ethical decision making if I had to choose just one to follow. This choice was pretty simple to me because a deontological approach is the only that fully follows my faith grounded