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There are two kinds of virtue for Aristotle: primary and secondary virtues.

According to the principle of justice, one is morally obligated to acknowlege a person’s right to due process under the law, fair compensation for harm done, and fair distribution of benefits.

A public defender is paid by the government to defend clients who have been arrested and charged by the government.

One of the traditional areas of philosophy is aesthetics which is sometimes grouped with ethics under the broad category of axiology.

A consequentialist moral reasoner would locate the moral worth of an action in the intrinsic quality of the act itself.

William C. Heffernan was a prosecutor who used technicalities to convict an innocent man.

Kant pointed out that it is impossible to act contrary to one’s inclination—i.e., if you are inclined toward telling a lie then you will necessarily tell that lie

A philosophy essay is not supposed to contain an explicit thesis statement because it will always contain implicit bias.

The word ‘virtue’ refers to excellence, power, capacity, skill, or positive trait whereby a moral virtue is the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong.

One classical theory that takes a utilitarian approach to punishment is called Deterrence.