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.

Aristotle argued that true happiness comes from living a life of virtue and realizing one’s potential, rather than pursuing fleeting pleasures or material wealth. Aristotle’s concept of the ...

Nicomachean Ethics is a foundational text for virtue ethics, and it was utilized in other Hellenistic schools of thought, like Stoicism and Epicureanism. Even now, Aristotle’s famed work ...

Many of us don’t just want to do the right thing. We want to be a certain sort of person-- the sort of person who does good things out of habit. The Aristotelian tradition calls the habits of a good ...