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to Others” and “Being just to Others”. It explains how good actions become good and how bad
actions become bad. In the deontology explains that deontology can be religious or rational
wherein religious deontology defines good rules as the rules or laws of God while rational
deontology defines good rules as the law of reason. The laws of human reason may coincide with
the laws of God, but rational deontology formulates its moral principle independent of religious
consideration. In virtue ethics, it explains the systematic explanation of Aristotle about success
and happiness. According to Aristotle “of all the goals of humans, happiness is the ultimate for it
is self sufficient (for once happy, there is nothing more to ask)” which Aristotle define as
excellence. For virtue ethics, an action done by a virtuous person is good while an action done by
Promoting human welfare does not just involve making sure that our actions towards people are
morally good. We could regard justice as a kind of moral virtue. Justice is giving what is due to a
Nozick (1993, 100-110), a just distribution is one in which no moral rights are violated in the
two processes involved in the act of distribution, The process of acquiring ownership of the
goods to be distributed and the process of transferring the ownership of the goods to be
distributed. This means, that the owner does not violate any moral rights in acquiring the good
For instance, still it can use the principles advanced by the theories of justice as fairness and
Finally, each of these theories argues for its superiority over others, it is possible to combine
them in some harmonious way or in other term harmonizing way of being good and bad.