Explain whether one following virtue ethics will recognize individual rights or favor the greatest good for the greatest number of people?

Virtue ethics is one of three major theories

in normative ethics, the other two being deontological ethics and

utilitarianism. It holds the cultivation of moral character and

embodiment of virtues as the essential issues in ethics, rather

than the establishment of rules based on duties or

consequentialism. In the right ethical theory the rights set forth

by a society are protected and given the highest priority. Rights

are considered to be ethically correct and valid since a large or

ruling population endorses them. Individuals may also bestow rights

upon others if they have the ability and resources to do so. For

examples, a person may say that her friend may borrow the car for

the evening. The friend who was given the ability to borrow the car

now has a right to the car in the evening.