14. Contemporary Virtue Ethics and Aristotle

Abstract

gence of a different theory, the theory of virtue ethics.1 According to virtue ethics, what is primary for ethics is not, as deontologists and utilitarians hold, the judgment of acts or their consequences, but the judgment of agents. The good person is the fundamental category for moral philosophy, and the good person is the person of good character, the person who possesses moral virtue.2 Virtue ethics, according to its authors, is not a new theory. Not only are its origins very old,3 but Aristotle is still held to be its finest

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