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.

What is the point of ethics? Is it to understand what moral rules or principles we ought to follow? Is it to understand the nature of right and wrong? Is it to come up with a foolproof definition of ...

Virtue ethics, rooted in Aristotelian philosophy, emphasises the development of individual character and the cultivation of virtues as central to moral conduct. In the context of business ethics, this ...

The Islamic ethical tradition has drawn generously on the Aristotelian ethical framework, and consequently emphasises the nature of the virtues and the cultivation of wisdom. (cihatatceken / E+ / ...

A defining feature of the evolution of western ethics has been the displacement of the language of virtue for that of utility and rights. While virtue theory – the construction of a moral framework ...

The death of Alasdair MacIntyre, one of the great moral philosophers of the twentieth century, whose rediscovery of Aristotleian anthropology and ethics showed a way out of the moral wilderness of the ...

The system of the virtues developed for two millennia in the West was widely abandoned by the end of the eighteenth century. It was set aside as unrealistic in an age with a new idea of the Real. The ...