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virtue ethics
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virtue ethics

Approach to ethics that takes the notion of virtue (often conceived as excellence) as fundamental. Virtue ethics is primarily concerned with traits of character that are essential to human flourishing, not with the enumeration of duties. It falls somewhat outside the traditional dichotomy between deontological ethics and consequentialism: It agrees with consequentialism that the criterion of an action's being morally right or wrong lies in its relation to an end that has intrinsic value, but more closely resembles deontological ethics in its view that morally right actions are constitutive of the end itself and not mere instrumental means to the end. See also eudaemonism.



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Benjamin Franklin, a virtue ethicist among other things, believed that, "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Jacquelyn Kegley bases her paradigm for patient care on the thinking of Josiah Royce, the virtue ethicist, who was deeply committed to a theology of human moral imperfection, struggle, and hope for spiritual redemption through divine grace.
Benjamin Franklin was a virtue ethicist whose list of 13 virtues include:
 
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