Ethics

The ethics on virtues and vices revolve around the type of character that reflects a persona question on character that is very significant with the choices and the decision that a person invokes.  It supports the theory that a persons character is determined by the chosen virtues and vices, as people get to possess the power and the ability to choose what type of virtues and vices they would want to possess.  It reflects the power of freedomthe liberty to decide what type of person he or she would want to become.  From here it is evident that the human good centers on the will to accommodate virtues that a person desires to acquire.  This common good is being applied intentionally for most of the time, with an intention centered on the will and the happinessthe virtues or the vices that is set for a success in performance that is usually set to acquiring the common good and happiness that are the most basic things desired by human beings.  It gives the notion that a human beings virtue is centered mainly on desire and aspiration.  This leads to the pleasure of achieving ones most wanted end.

Main Body
Personal vision of the world
Virtues.  I have a number of virtues that replicates my desire to get to a common good set to acquiring happiness and pleasure.  For the most part I am a lighthearted, happy-go-lucky type of person.  I enjoy happiness because it gives me the pleasure of seeing the world in its beautiful color and state.  I define happiness in human life as an everyday matter that is acquired through little acts and achievements that reflect a persons desire to be happy.  It reflects the desire to enjoy the world and to be a person whom I want to become.  For this I end up being what I want to witness in my world to be happy because I want to witness happiness and pleasure.  I care much about others because, inwardly, I want others to care for me, while creating a world that is happy and pleasurable, one that is filled with love and caring.  This reflects small reactions of pleasure and displeasure that are often the surest signs of a mans moral disposition FOOT year, which Foot has indicated in her work.      

Vices.  I also have some vices, such as smoking and drinking.  These vices are under gluttony, which is the excess of a sphere of existence, specifically our attitude towards our desires.  It appears that, under Aristotles theory about the desire of the human being, I am exercising a weakness of the will, since I cannot keep my desires under control.  I should be one of the continent people, who have unruly desires but manages to control them.  I could also be one of the temperate people, who have desires that are naturally directed towards that which is good for them HINMAN 2005.  It would be better if I am capable of controlling my desires, especially with respect to cigarettes and liquor.

Set of values
There are a set of values consistent with the corresponding virtues and vices that have been mentioned, and these are the following
With respect to acting audaciously in the face of danger (with respect to health), courage is the mean between the excess of rashness and the deficiency of cowardice.

With respect to the enjoyment of pleasures and desires, temperance is the mean between the excess of intemperance and the deficiency of insensibility.

With respect to spending money and attributes, generosity is the mean between the excess of wastefulness and the deficiency of stinginess.

With respect to relations with the strangers, friendliness is the mean between the excess of being ingratiating and the deficiency of being surly.

Based on the given set of values and the stated virtues and vices that have been mentioned earlier, it is evident that there is the deficiency of cowardice, an excess of intemperance, an excess of wastefulness, and the mean of friendliness.  There is a need to control the desires of gluttony and wastefulness, and to put more courage in controlling the desires to pleasure in order to get the mean, which ultimately leads to happiness.

Critical analysis
 According to Foot, virtues are generally beneficial FOOT year.  There are virtues, such as courage, temperance, and wisdom, which are very significant when relating to people.  They benefit people while making decisions in their dispositions and challenges.  The virtues of charity and generosity are also present in the given set of values (under friendliness).  These virtues are assisted by the sacrificing of ones interests and desires.  The human good is present in these values, with the presence of positive service, as indicated in Foots stated principle.  According to Foot, Virtues are in general beneficial characteristics, and indeed ones that a human being needs to have, for his own sake and that of his fellows FOOT year.  This gives the indication that courage, temperance, generosity, and friendliness are virtues that have to be possessed in order to attain the common good, the pleasure, and the happiness, which reflect the common end.

Foot also mentions the absurdity of moral failings, such as pride, vanity, worldliness, and avarice, which according to Foot, harms the possessor in one way or another.  These moral failings prevent people from attaining the mean, which can give them much more pleasure and happiness than the worldly possession of material things and vanity.  These moral failings, such as pride, vanity, and worldliness, can prevent people from attaining the common good present in the desire to attain pleasure and happiness.  Thus, they have to be minimized, if not deleted, from the set of values being presented in the former.  They can prevent me from attaining the common good, which leads to happiness and gaiety, which are my chosen ends.  There is a need to lessen the moral failings to acquire the common good.

Conclusion
A persons chosen character is significant with the choices and the decision that come with portraying the chosen character.  With the power and the ability attached to this liberty, the person reflects over the will to accommodate virtues that the person desires to acquire, with common good and happiness as the two most basic things desired by human beings.  A persons virtue is being centered on desire and aspiration, with the pleasure of achieving ones most wanted end.  Since the virtues being presented point out the excess in intemperance and wastefulness (with the deficiency of cowardice and the mean of friendliness), it is evident that there should be more courage and less temperance and less generosity in the values that are presented.  By controlling the mean, it should lead to greater happiness and the conviction of the common good.

Virtues are generally beneficial they benefit people in the decisions and the dispositions that are to be made FOOT year.  Charity and generosity should be among the list of virtues a person should acquire, but to be wasteful and intemperate, however, is an exaggeration of the mean not suitable for the attainment of true happiness and common good.