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Advantages
- Recognises everything and everyone has a purpose
- Emphasises personal and spiritual side of ethics by speaking in terms of disposition and character
- Inspiring and Idealistic
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Disadvantages
- can be difficult to define the virtues and determine who is virtuous
- virtues can clash in some situations or can be clash of ethics e.g. Bonhoeffer showed courage in attempt to kill hitler but this is murder?!
- Fails to adequately address issues like abortion as there are ne guidelines to moral issues like these.
- arguably moral codes are necessary to maintain a moral community e.g. do not murder
- cannot correctly assess certain actions which happen occasionally by virtuous people - virtuous people are still morally fallible
- In such a multicultural society it is virtually impossible to create a virtue ethic that is applicable to everyone.
- virtues can be displayed in bad actions e.g. courage of a villain
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