# Three ways to ask

One way looks at outcomes and asks what does the most good. One looks at duties and asks what rules we must keep. One looks at character and asks what a good person would do. Each catches something the other two miss.

Connects to:
- [Ethics and meaning](https://mapideas.org/i/ethics)
- [What is good?](https://mapideas.org/i/et_good)

Sources:
- [Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Consequentialism](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/)
- [Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Virtue Ethics](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-virtue/)

Source: https://mapideas.org/i/et_three · open on the map: https://mapideas.org/#et_three