Not "what I ought to do" but "what sort of person should I be" (in reference to Aristotle) - Schneewind, "Nobody would choose to live without friends even if he had all the other good things" - Aristotle, "By whatever standard soever we frame in our minds the ideas of virtues or vices...their rectitude, or obliquity, consists in the agreement with those patterns prescribed by some law" - Locke, "The best life for a human being- eudaemonia- consists in the exercise of the virtues" - Anscombe, "It seems clear that virtues are...beneficial. Human beings do not get on well without them" - Foot, "The exercise of the virtues is itself a crucial component of the good life for man" - MacIntyre, "Character is more fundamental than acts, rules or principals" - Hauerwas,

Quotes in virtue ethics

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