What is the point of ethics? Is it to understand what moral rules or principles we ought to follow? Is it to understand the nature of right and wrong? Is it to come up with a foolproof definition ...

Virtue ethics is person rather than action based. It looks at the moral character of the person carrying out an action. A right act is the action a virtuous person would do in the same circumstances.

(cihatatceken / E+ / Getty Images) After the Enlightenment, the West largely abandoned Aristotelian virtue ethics. But the epochal work of Alasdair MacIntyre has attempted to recover the vitality ...

Just as it is at Santa Clara University, my Ethics of War and Peace class here at Sophia University ... In the first part of the semester, we did a unit on the meaning of the virtue of courage. We ...

Why think this is so? 1. Virtue ethics, with its focus on character and human flourishing, gives us a more complete picture of the moral life. Many who advocate for virtue ethics focus on the ...