These two premises concludes with: John is not living a good life because eventually his cheating may cause him to get into trouble, …show more content…
Cultivating the right virtues are affected by different factors beyond control of the selected individual. This includes education, family, friends and society (Athanassoulis, 2014). As stated before, a virtue ethicist would say, “Act as a virtuous person would act (Athanassoulis, 2014). The question here is - in what sense? Not all individuals have the same idea of what virtue ethics consist of. You cannot simply reject a person’s idea of what they consider to be virtuous because this is more than likely based on one of the following factors mentioned above: educational background, family values, friends and the society they are associated with. This concludes with the question and the reason why this theory was objected based on moral luck, “When is it appropriate to praise or blame an individual, and under what circumstances? (Athanassoulis,