Virtue Ethics occupies the strange position of being one of the oldest and most prominently discussed ethical theories throughout history, and yet many Contemporary Moral philosophers do not recognize it as a genuine alternative to currently prominent normative theories, such as utilitarianism or Kantian ethics.
In Virtue Rediscovered: Deontology, Consequentialism, and Virtue Ethics in the Contemporary Moral Landscape, Nathan Wood argues that this discrepancy requires us to rethink how we und.
Virtue Ethics occupies the strange position of being one of the oldest and most prominently discussed ethical theories throughout history, and yet many Contemporary Moral philosophers do not recognize it as a genuine alternative to currently prominent normative theories, such as utilitarianism or Kantian ethics
