Concept
Virtue ethics
Overview
normative ethical theories
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Virtue, being a coincidence of the rational will, with every duty firmly settled in the character, is, like everything formal, only one and the same. But, as regards the end of actions, which is also duty, that is, as regards the matter which one ought to make an end, there may be several virtues; and as the obligation to its maxim is called a duty of virtue, it follows that there are also several duties of virtue…
Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
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Virtuous conduct appears in it as it were merely by accident, as the means, not as the end. Therefore the ethical theory of Stoicism is in its whole nature and point of view fundamentally different from the ethical systems which lay stress directly upon virtue, such as the doctrines of the Vedas, of Plato, of Christianity, and of Kant. The aim of Stoical ethics is happiness: τελος το ευδαι μονειν (_virtutes omnes…
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea
States what Virtue ethics is.
The multiplication of happiness is, according to the utilitarian ethics, the object of virtue: the occasions on which any person (except one in a thousand) has it in his power to do this on an extended scale, in other words, to be a public benefactor, are but exceptional; and on these occasions alone is he called on to consider public utility; in every other case, private utility, the interest or happiness of some…
John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
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Philosophers who discussed Virtue ethics
- Philippa Foot
- Tibor Machan
- Richard Price
- Leo Strauss
- Thomas Aquinas
- Aristotle
- Richard Clyde Taylor
- Confucius
- G. E. M. Anscombe
- Alasdair MacIntyre
- Iris Murdoch
- Robert C. Solomon
- Tara Smith (philosopher)
- Rosalind Hursthouse
- Julia Driver
- Julia Annas
- Jiyuan Yu
Related ideas
- Linda Zagzebski
- Virtue epistemology
- History
- Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)
- Polis
- Homer
- Philosophy
- Ambrose
- Philippa Foot
- City-state
- Vice
- Immanuel Kant
- Ancient Greek
- Classical republicanism
- John Stuart Mill
- Republic (Plato)
- Justice
- Ancient Greek philosophy
- Personality
- Positive psychology
- Livy
- Eudaimonia
- Stoicism
- Mortimer J. Adler
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- International development
- Livy
- Martin Seligman
- Stanley Hauerwas
- Capability approach
- Daniel Goleman
- Roger Crisp
- Julia Annas
- Michael Slote
- Deirdre McCloskey
- Constitutional theory
- Emotional Intelligence
- Lawrence C. Becker
- Adjudicator
- James Page (Australian educationist)
- Peace education
- Shannon Vallor
- The Schizophrenia of Modern Ethical Theories
- Virtue jurisprudence