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Ethics : A Moral Dilemma

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The meaning of what it is to be ethical is a moral quandary that has plagued human beings for as long as they have been able to make decisions. Questions of right and wrong permeate even the most minute aspects of our lives, finding ways to burrow themselves into every decision we make. The fact that we don’t know how to control ourselves is amazing, but that is what develops our characters. How we gain this knowledge of self is really the question, and I believe once we have mastered this knowing where our boundaries lie is when we get to be the most morally aware and we become real people looking for genuine connections. Ethos is the original art of convincing or as I like to say the original finesse! For example, I remember as a …show more content…

The development of character in Aristotle’s Concepts of Ethos said “Developing character, then, is a matter of pulling oneself up by one 's own bootstraps. To achieve courage, an aspect of ethos, I must act courageously repeatedly until it becomes quite natural for me to act in a courageous fashion. When I have the habit of courage, I have the virtue of courage as part of my character” (Halloran, Page 5). How did I develop the courage to take the initiative and try to talk to people first, I feel as if there are two guarantee ways to learn. You could either do a trial and error method, or you can watch and learn, from someone else and adjust what they do with your style. One method sparks more creativity than the other, and you could say that the watch and learn method comprises of the trial and error, but not vice versa. At my previous institution, I had a close friend, Matthias he was an interesting person. When he was drunk, he was literally a child. When he was sober, he was a goofball who over thought a lot. Although, he had this talent; no matter what situation you put him in he could always keep his head cool and talk to anybody about anything, and he would seem hilarious. I remember this time we went to the Jersey Gardens mall, it was Matthias my roommate my Mike, and myself. There was this one beautiful young woman by herself and she looked dumbfounded, and as young men do we basically talked about why she

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