When the right is taken to be the key to ethical behavior, ethics becomes oriented to ideas of obligation and duty, centering around the stating of principles of behavior , rather than the tracing of consequences. What is right to do is what one is obligated to do. Morality of an act is independent of its outcome. Seeks the right, which is identified with moral obligation, which relates to duty, the ought, rightness, or fittingness. The right is the moral.
Right motive is the rational willing of one's duty for duty's sake.
Ross held that the right pertains to acts, the good to motives. Virtues are understood as character traits that are morally valued, such as truthfulness, courage, compassion, and sincerity. The Ethics of Care and Feminist Ethics downplay rights and allegedly universal principles and rules in favor of an emphasis on caring, interpersonal relationships, and contexts. This is a form of deconstructive postmodern thought, which questions the possibility of genuine knowledge of all sorts.