Virtue Ethics (Strengths)

Strengths

• Virtue ethics avoids having to use a formula (e.g. 'greatest good for the greatest number') > focuses instead on the kind of person you ought to be

• Virtue ethics understands the need to distinguish good people from legalists > Just because one obeys laws does not make one a good person

• Virtue ethics stresses the importance of motivating people to want to be good > stresses the importance of education in showing that good actions are their own reward - it shows how we acquire and learn virtues

• Virtue ethics involves our entire life, even…