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Single Idea 3551

[from 'The Morality of Happiness' by Julia Annas, in 23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 2. Duty ]

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