Virtue Ethics In The Washington Holocaust Museum

Virtue ethics varies greatly depending on the moral beliefs of the individual making the decision. Not every person has the same moral values so the lenses of virtue ethics are potentially limitless. When deciding what course of action to take under the virtue principle the individual must ask themselves if the activity that they are about to participate is either A) improving them as a person or B) supporting their morals. This principle relies on the assumption that if an activity does not go along with either point A or point B then the person will not participate. In order for the museum to accurately cater to the public they would be required to know a person’s individual morals. A person who believes that education is of upmost importance is going to argue that the Washington Holocaust Museum …show more content…
So, although most people in society know the importance of being respectful in certain times or places, if you as an individual don’t think that the Holocaust Museum is a somber place, then you might arrive in a party hat. If it is what you believe, other people’s ideas and influences would not affect how you would behave. Today’s society however does not value or emphasize individual morals based on feelings but rather morals based on actions, “thus effort has been directed to solving material problems which have in any case been shown to have easy solutions, while true moral problems remain intractable and so are neglected” and therefore we are “divided by differing concepts of morality” and we “need a unifying moral concept that both the religious and secular worlds can accept” (“Virtue Ethics an ancient solution to a modern problem”, 2014). Under this view the easiest solution would simply be to keep the museum open. It allows the individual to decide for themselves if the museum upholds their morals. If it were closed there would be no decision for the individual to make, causing a potential moral