The key to being ethical is having the willpower not to follow your own utility function. Social ethics are encouraged by teaching people to "be good", where "good" is the whole social ethical code. ... The key contrast is between "good" people who will do the moral thing, and "evil" people who do just the opposite.

What is the virtue of will?

Virtue of Will-Power. Contemporary virtue ethicists distinguish a whole group of virtues of will power. Robert C. Roberts points to perseverance, resoluteness, courage, patience, and self-control (1984). Similarly, Jan Steutel identifies persistence, endurance, resoluteness, patience, diligence, and temperance (1999).

What is willpower philosophy?

Willpower is a form of synchronic self- control. In this form of self-control, an occurrent desire is prevented from prevailing in action. Synchronic self-control can be contrasted with diachronic control, in which an agent seeks to prevent some non-occurrent future desire from driving action.