One common objection to virtue ethics is that it is" not applicable"; it is, allegedly, a theory
which is too vague for us to apply it to the actual world. There is a quick response to this: we …

An recent years, moral philosophers have flocked to virtue ethics, attracted by its po? tential
to overcome the difficulties that affect both consequentialism and deontol? ogy. 1 This is an …

KURT BAIER hen von Wright, in his Gifford Lectures (The Varieties of Goodness, 1963) V y
claimed that virtue and the virtues were a seriously neglected topic in contemporary ethics …

O ne response to the history of Greek and medieval thought about the virtues might well be
to suggest that even within that relatively coherent tradition of thought there are just too …

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 …

In recent years a number of moral philosophers have been critical of what they take to be the
striking neglect by their predecessors of the topic of virtue and the virtues. It is not always …

While there has been much talk recently about the revival of an ethics of virtue (EV), it is not
always entirely clear what such a revival might entail. There are three quite different views …

N RECENT DECADES THERE HAS BEEN a great deal of interest in virtue ethics, broadly
construed. There are, of course, many different such theories, and some dispute over what …

In his 1988 paper (reprinted in this volume), David Solomon argues that'the most striking
feature of virtue ethics is the near universality of its rejection in contemporary ethical theory …

Virtue ethics is sometimes taken to be incapable of providing guidance for an individual's
actions, as some other ethical theories do. I show how virtue ethics does provide guidance …