Abstract

For right or wrong to act as the core issue of the ethics of responsibility , argued that contemporary virtue can not properly define their moral judgments in moral status. To utilitarianism, for example, this theory may be tools of virtue, making the value can be any sacrifice, but also as the result of moral tool, allowing actors to develop a great personality of the talk, not in the actors value between personality traits and behavior consistency. In this paper, John Stuart Mill utilitarianism, for example, utilitarianism of John Stuart Mill to its positioning in the search for the virtues, and their views why can not the camp's criticism of virtue ethics analysis. Finally, point out that John Stuart Mill utilitarianism has not been able to meet the requirements of contemporary virtue theorists, but mainly because he was by the two-level logic and psychology define the relationship between virtue and happiness attempt was not completely able to get rid of any tool of moral , and further lead to inconsistencies between personality and behavior of the situation. Contemporary ethicians assume that duty ethics, which focuses on right and wrong , cannot adequately delineate the importance of virtues among all moral judgments. For example, utilitarianism can instrumentalize virtues, turning them into values ​​that can be sacrificed at will . Furthermore, the instrumentalization of virtues makes the cultivation of excellent character pointless and the consistence between character and behavior values ​​hardly possible. This paper is intended to explore how Mill seeks to define virtues in terms of his utilitarianism and analyze why his perspective cannot deal with the criticism from the camp of virtue ethics. At last, it will be noted that the reason why Mill's utilitarianism cannot fulfill the contemporary virtue ethicians' requirements lies primarily in: with his attempt to define the relationship between virtues and happiness at the levels of logic and psychology, virtues may still be instrumentalized and, moreover, lead to the incongruity between character and behaviors