The Return of Virtue Ethics. Introducing Virtue Ethics. Ethics and Virtue. Ethics and Virtue Developed by Manuel Velasquez, Claire Andre, Thomas Shanks, S.J., and Michael J.
Meyer For many of us, the fundamental question of ethics is, "What should I do? " or "How should I act? " Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics. Virtue Ethics. 1.
Preliminaries Virtue ethics' founding fathers are Plato and, more particularly Aristotle (its roots in Chinese philosophy are even more ancient) and it persisted as the dominant approach in Western moral philosophy until at least the Enlightenment. It suffered a momentary eclipse during the nineteenth century but re-emerged in the late 1950's in Anglo-American philosophy.