Virtue Ethics as a Model for Addressing Moral Decline in Ghana
George Anderson Jnr 
& Husein Inusah
Issue: Vol.4 No.3 March 2023 Article 1 pp.170-180
DOI: https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.2023431| Published online 3rd March, 2023
© 2023 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CCBY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Every culture espouses distinct moral values systems which serve as the blueprints guiding behaviours of members of a society. Ghana as a country has a rich moral value system that shapes its citizens’ worldviews and informs the way they relate with other human beings. A reflection on, past moral values of Ghanaian societies, however, reveals a moral deficit. This situation throws up the following crucial questions. What is the future of Ghanaian societies given the current state of moral decadence? What can be done to salvage the present state of moral decadence? The paper is approached qualitatively, using interviews, and proposes a significant return to moral virtues where societies will have to teach and ensure that the young ones practice moral values through examples of virtuous living.
Keywords: Ghana, Sustainable Future, Moral Decadence, Moral Values, Virtue Ethics.
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George Anderson Jnr. (Ph.D.) is a Lecturer at the Department of Religion and Human Values, University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He obtained his Bachelor of Education (Arts) and a Master of Philosophy in Religion and Human Values from the University of Cape Coast, and Ph.D. from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. His area of specialization lies in the intersection between religion, Christian ethics, commercialisation of religion, and Pentecostal Christianity. He has published widely in reputable journals and currently researching on Ethics, and commercialisation of religion in Ghanaian Pentecostal Christianity.
Husein Inusah (Ph.D.) is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Classics and Philosophy, University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Ghana in 2014. His area of specialization includes epistemology, critical thinking, and moral epistemology. He has published widely in top-notched journals and currently researching the prospects of intellectual decoloniality among epistemic marginalized peoples of the world with emphasis on Africa.
Anderson G. & Inusah H. “Virtue Ethics as a Model for Addressing Moral Decline in Ghana,” E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences 4, no.3 (2023):170-180. https://doi.org/10.38159/ehass.2023431
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