Blog 3 Flourishing

In my own life, I think that to flourish you do need to be making good and moral decisions. It is important for any person, religious or not, to have some sort of rules for themselves. Whether they are spoken rules or unspoken rules. I also believe that every does have these to some extent whether they really realize it or not. Would you help a lost little kid find their parents? Would you call the cops if you saw someone getting really hurt by another person (or other things)? So, not necessarily things that you would automatically go, oh yeah that is my moral choice and good descison. Thinking about it, I feel like (back to the last unit) that follows Kants theory a little bit. You just do it because it is right, you dont have a question about it.

Now Ive got myself really thinking differently than I originally was when I started writing this post. I feel like in my life, how I would judge if I were flourishing would be if I was doing things that were good and right, and cause as much happiness as possible for the most people. But not only doing things because they would do that. But at least trying to do it. I like how Kupperman talked about having character and that to have character is to make good decisions and to make a habit out of making those decisions. That is exactly the way I want to live my life, in a habit of good decisions. 

I think the virtue theory fits into this by when you are trying to make a good decision, because you want the most people to be happy, you have to find a median between the two extremes of what you could do sometimes in order to have the "right" decision and the "greatest amount of happiness" all at the same time.