Topic: What is Virtue ethics? What did you learn from the video of Steve Job?
Use the virtue ethics theory to express your idea about a good life that may you
choose to live.
Answer:
What is Virtue ethics?
Virtue ethics is currently one of three major approaches in normative ethics, which
is a theory of morality that makes virtue the central concern. Moral conduct is
something that emanates from a person’s moral virtues, from his or her moral
character, not from obedience to moral laws.
Most modern virtue ethicists take their inspiration from Aristotle. He claims that
humanity’s greatest good is happiness or eudaimonia. Human beings must fulfill
their natural function—to live fully in line with reason—in order to be happy. The
virtues are rational ways of being and flourishing, and to live this way is to
cultivate them. Aristotle suggests that moral virtue is a Golden Mean, a midpoint
between two extreme ways of behaving. So he says that the good life is a life in the
middle, a life of moderation.
