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.

Aristotle argued that true happiness comes from living a life of virtue and realizing one’s potential, rather than pursuing fleeting pleasures or material wealth. Aristotle’s concept of the ...

It’s odds on that quoting Greek philosophy is something you’re doing on a regular basis. Many of the sayings we use daily were first coined by Aristotle (384-BC – 322 BC). His studies in ...

Aristotle Wrote It to Explore Ethical Theory As the other part of the name Nicomachean Ethics suggests, Aristotle used the account to explore ethics.