Virtue ethics is person rather than action based. It looks at the moral character of the person carrying out an action. A right act is the action a virtuous person would do in the same circumstances.

But that 'virtue' was enough for them to be treated as human beings. Aristotle doesn't provide any sensible practical method of recognising natural slaves, and without that it's inevitable that ...

I think I’ve always loved teaching.”  Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung, professor of philosophy at Calvin, says this love took root ...

By using the phrase “the type of man,” Matt invokes the school of moral philosophy known as virtue ethics, which focuses on a person’s fundamental moral qualities. According to virtue ethics ...

The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, one of antiquity’s greatest thinkers, was a student of Plato and a tutor to ...

"Instead of seeing it as something to be found, Aristotle believed it was something we attract by living well," he wrote. To live well, you should "practice specific virtues and turn them into ...

Aristotle, for example, emphasized the truly noble and good human being: someone who had achieved complete virtue and ...