What are the main elements of virtue ethics?
What philosophical contributions of Mencius and Aristotle are relevant to virtue ethics?
Different from both Kantian principle-based ethics and utilitarian forms of consequentialism, virtue ethics became an important issue in the field of modem moral philosophy.
In Western philosophy, Aristotle' s theory of virtue in his Nicomachean Ethics ( Greek version, 1979; English version, 1985) initiates the study of virtue ethics by explaining the notion of goodness in terms of respecting an end:
I do not propose to tackle this conundrum here, but would conclude that any game that forces a player to make choices or carry out virtual actions that they consider to be beyond the bounds of virtue is indeed, from a classical virtue ethics point of view unethical.
