Virtue ethics

Normative ethical theories

Virtue ethics (also aretaic ethics, from Greek ἀρετή [aretḗ]) is a theory in normative ethics that prioritizes the development of moral character and dispositions (good habits), contrary to ethical systems that emphasize individual actions, duties, or obedience to divine authority. Virtue ethics is usually contrasted with two other major normative theories: consequentialism, which defines moral rightness by the goodness of an action's outcome, and deontology, which defines rightness in terms of moral duty. Instead, virtue ethics defines rightness in terms of motive, intrinsic to a moral agent and their propensity to behave in a certain way under given circumstances.

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