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Virtue Ethics: Becoming a Good Person
Aristotle's answer: focus on character, not rules
What if the most important ethical question isn't 'what should I do?' but 'who should I become?'
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Virtue ethics, originating with Aristotle, shifts the ethical question from 'what should I do?' to 'what kind of person should I be?' Rather than following rules or maximising outcomes, the virtuous person develops stable character traits — courage, honesty, justice, practical wisdom — and acts from those traits naturally.
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