VIRTUE ETHICS
● One of the major approaches in normative ethics
● Emphasizes the person's trait or character in moral thinking
● Guides the moral agent in seeking the good
● Concerned with understanding the good as a matter of developing the virtuous character
of a person.
● Formation of one's character brought about by determining and doing virtuous acts
ARISTOTLE’S VIRTUE ETHICS
● He offers principle of conduct guide humans in attaining the GOOD LIFE
● He believes that people fundamentally desire is happiness/eudaimonia
2 MAJOR PRINCIPLES THAT WILL GUIDE US IN UNDERSTANDING ARISTOTLE VIRTUE
ETHICS
1. Eudaimonia - practice and habit of excellence/ having a virtue
- cab be achieved by practice and habit of excellence
2. Virtue - goodness in person/ good moral quality