Virtues ethics focuses on the person not the act. Virtue ethics de-emphasises rules, consequences and acts.
Aristotle agreed with Socrates and Plato that virtues are central to a well-lived life. He believes that an ethical person was the man of virtues. Virtue is the mean between two extremes.
There is no univocal definition of ethics which is also known as moral philosophy. For some people ethics is a code of conduct, and yet for others it is a form of etiquette or rules guiding human beings in their private and public life. But no matter how one approaches the definition of ethics, one thing is clear and that is that it is the systematic study of the principles of good behaviour, that is, good behaviour as it applies to individuals in their interaction with other people and the environment or society. After all a well ordered society is a society that is made up of disciplined and morally upright people.
Thus what constitutes a good or bad one becomes the subject matter of ethics. The two main subdivisions of ethics are normative and metaethics, the former dealing with moral judgement and how people ought to behave while the later is the …show more content…
It is that branch of philosophy that deals with human conduct. The moral philosopher is concerned with whether there are any value or virtues that all men ought to pursue. What is the good life for man, he may ask, and what must man do to attain it? Are values absolute, subjective, relative or culturally varied? In contemporary times, moral philosophers, especially those of the analytic tradition, concerns themselves also with issues that have to do wth the clarification of concepts – like good, bad, wrong – used in moral evaluation. They believe that it is not through this clarification of concepts that most moral issues in philosophy are