Virtue ethics not only deals with the rightness or wrongness of individual actions, it provides guidance as to the sort of characteristics and behaviours a good person will seek to achieve.

Christian and Jewish virtue ethics. The thirteenth-century Christian theologian Thomas Aquinas, in his Summa Theologiae, examines what is required for an agent to attain the summum bonum, or ...

Virtue ethics can help to understand how technologies can help – or hinder – people to cultivate specific virtues, such as justice, courage, self-control, or honesty.

And virtue ethics adds that, given human nature, this is the way to happiness. References Joseph Kotva, The Christian Case for Virtue Ethics (Georgetown University Press, 1997).

Virtue ethics. Help us keep The Tablet’s voice independent, clear and far-reaching. Founded in 1840, The Tablet is the leading independent English-language Catholic weekly, ...

A comparison of the work of Immanuel Kant and Aristotle with regard to Deontology and Virtue Ethics respectively a) Kantian deontology – social, political and cultural influences on Kant’s ...

Virtue ethics challenge us to move beyond our negative feelings and focus on what kind of person we want to be, what kind of character will help us live out our commitments. This kind of hope, rooted ...

This essay reconsiders Clifford Simak’s Way Station as a nuanced exploration of environmental virtue ethics, challenging the conventional view of Simak’s ideology as conservative. It argues that Simak ...