Virtue ethics is not by definition naturalistic. It would surely be surprising if it were; most
ethical theories are compatible with different positions about their relation to the world. I take …

I will begin by stating three theses which I present in this paper. The first is this: that virtue
ethics, insofar as it remains a valuable new approach in moral philosophy, is misleadingly …

The article seeks to give an account of Christian virtue ethics. To this end, it first examines
virtue and natural virtue ethics deriving from the Aristotelian tradition and its contemporary …

Virtue ethicists seem confronted with the following problem. Traits of character consist in
dispositions of regard, response, and choice that have objects, and whether a trait is virtuous …

THE past fifteen years have witnessed a dramatic resurgence of philosophical interest in the
vir? tues. The charge that modern philosophical thought neglects the virtues (Becker 1975 …

The article argues that a consideration of the idea, common in ancient ethical theory, that
virtue is a skill or craft, reveals that some common construals of it are mistaken. The analogy …

SINCE 1973, WHEN THE Journal of Religious Ethics published its first issue with a debate
over an ethics of virtue, through 11981 when Alasdair Macintyre published After Virtue, until …

Virtue ethics is standardly taught and discussed as a distinctive approach to the major
questions of ethics, a third major position alongside Utilitarian and Kantian ethics. I argue …

In the tradition of Western philosophy since the fifth century bc, the default form of ethical
theory has been some version of what is nowadays called virtue ethics. Virtue ethics is best …

" There are grounds for saying that contemporary work in virtue ethics is, if not quite in its
theoretical infancy, at least not far out of diapers. And this suggests that we should be gentle …