Values

Individual beliefs that motivate people to act one way or another.

Values may be ____, have ____ _____, and/or be a _____, they are a driving force for _________.

Sacred, intrinsic worth, means to an end, ethical decision making.

Virtue ethics

One of three major approaches in normative ethics.

Virtue ethics emphasizes…

The virtues or moral character

Virtues ethics contrast which 2 approaches?

Deontology and consequentialism

What two concepts are central to virtue ethics?

Virtue and practical wisdom

Virtue

An excellent trait of character.

What is virtue ethics?

A character-based approach to morality assumes that we acquire virtue through practice