For instance, the main virtue of a racehorse is to be fast the main virtue of a knife is to be sharp. The sort of excellence in question can be specific to particular kinds of thing. It is a quality that enables a thing to perform its purpose or function. The Greek term that is usually translated as “virtue” is arête. Speaking generally, arête is a kind of excellence. Anyone who abides by this rule, he claims, will be behaving with complete consistency and rationality, and they will unfailingly do the right thing. Kantian ethics: The great German philosopher I mmanuel Kant argues that the basic rule we should follow is neither “Obey God’s laws,” nor “Promote happiness.” Instead, he claimed that the fundamental principle of morality is something like: Always act in the way that you could honestly want everyone to act if they were in a similar situation.So the right way to live is, in a general way, to try to promote the most happiness you can, both your own and that of other people– especially those around you–while trying to avoid causing pain or unhappiness. Utilitarianism: This is the view that what matters most in the world in the promotion of happiness and the avoidance of suffering.The right way to live is to follow these rules. the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, the Koran). The religious answer: God has given us a set of rules to follow.I skimmed throughout and just read the ending. I've been reading this for 3 days, not even close to the end and It made me think.

I'm all into underdog characters- heroine with no backbone? Fuck sign me up! But the heroine here annoyed the shit out of me! It seems like she cried in every fuckin chapter! I think the author was trying to make us reader feel sorry for her, but the constant whining, shaking, throwing up, passing out and the self pity bullshit was too much EVEN for me WHO LOVES THIS KIND OF SHIT! I'm prolly not making any sense here again.

For me the whole thing was lack of something. There were some revelations but the way it was delivered was chappy and boring. The way it was told was a lil off, some scenarios was all over the place that my mind couldn't even process it. I feel like I was just reading it and it should have made me feel like I'M IN IT. first few chapters was engaging but it quickly went down after that. This is so sad because this book has everything I WANT! The plot was interesting, we have a cruel hero, hero who is inlove with ow, TSTL under dog heroine and they are in a marriage of convenience.

Virtue & vanity by astrid jane ray