Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics in Action

• Virtue ethics looks at virtue or moral character, rather than at ethical duties and rules, or the consequences of actions. Virtue ethics is particularly concerned with the way individuals live their lives, and less concerned in assessing particular actions.

Aristotelian virtue ethics focuses on the cultivation of the agent instead of the making of rules of conduct. The kung fu approach shares this view, but the process of ethics does not rely on any metaphysics for justification.

The person who follows the Aristotelian metaphysics will put mo...

• The highest good is the cultivation of personal virtue, or moral excellence.

• The goal of human life is to live in accordance with nature, and that the key to achieving this goal is to develop virtue.

• Four cardinal virtues - wisdom, courage, justice, and moderation. Wisdom involv...