What Is Virtue Ethics

question 55

Multiple Choice

What is virtue ethics?

• A) A view in applied ethics that moral reasoning should focus entirely on the goodness or badness of persons rather than the rightness of wrongness of their actions.
• B) A metaethical theory according to which the only meaningful moral terms are thick ethical terms, such as courage, rather than thin ethical terms, such as right or wrong.
• C) A normative theory that says that what you ought to do follows from what kind of person you ought to be and that what kind of person you ought to be follows from what is required for a flourishing human life.
• D) A type of consequentialism according to which an action is right if and only if it exhibits a character trait that increases the overall level of happiness in a person's life.

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