Full Idea
An ethics of virtue moves from an initial interest in what we ought to do to an interest in the kinds of people we are and hope to be, because the latter is taken to be the best way of understanding the former.
Gist of Idea
Virtue theory tries to explain our duties in terms of our character
Source
Julia Annas (The Morality of Happiness [1993], 2.5)
Book Reference
Annas,Julia: 'The Morality of Happiness' [OUP 1995], p.113