Virtue ethics

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title: Virtue ethics
text: Virtue ethics is an approach that treats virtue and character as the primary subjects of ethics, in contrast to other ethical systems that put consequences of voluntary acts, principles or rules of conduct, or obedience to divine authority in the primary role. Virtue ethics is usually contrasted with two other major approaches in ethics, consequentialism and deontology, which make the goodness of outcomes of an action (consequentialism) and the concept of moral duty (deontology) central. While v
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description: Normative ethical theories
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date created: 2003-07-06T00:08:36Z
date modified: 2024-09-04T08:01:27Z
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