The Good in the Right

I took a cursory reading on a book by Robert Audi about the theory of intuition and intrinsic Value on my bus journey this morning.

He concluded on 5 ways of doing Ethics :

1. Top Down approach -- Rule Based
2. Bottom up approach -- Case based
3. Inside Out approach -- Virtue based
4. Work from Values to Principles ---Utilitarianism
5. Reflection from the Middle

He attempted to integrate both from the rule and the case based ethics,using & extending the Kantian framework with the Rossian intuitionism

I heard of utilitarianism,consequentialism approach and also Aristotelian based virtue ethics. His creative thoughts on re-working from the middle and opt for reflections from it is a good trial.

In the end of the book he put forth ten normative commitments appropriate to the overall intuitionist theory developed in the book :
1. We should not injure or harm people
2. We should not lie
3. We should keep our promise
4. We should not treat people unjustly and should contribute to rectifying injustice and to preventing future injustice.
5. We should make amends to our wrong doings
6. We should contribute to the good.
7. We should express gratitude,in deed or at least in words of thanks,in a way that befits good things done for us by other people,where other things equal,our obligation is stronger if what was done for us was not owed to us.
8. We should develop or at least sustain our distinctive human capacities.
9. We should contribute to increasing or at least preserving the freedom of persons,giving priority to removing restraints over enhancing opportunities.
10. We should,in the manner of our relations with other people,treat them respectfully.

So these ten commitments,namely on
1. Prohibition of injury
2. Veracity
3. Promissory fidelity
4. Justice
5. Reparation
6. Beneficence
7. Gratitude
8. Self-Improvement
9. Enhancement and preservation of freedom
10.Respectfulness
are ways of living our better lives around the world !