Full Idea
Some virtues do give us aims, but nothing from within morality suggests the kind of good state of affairs which it would seem always to be our duty to promote. And why indeed should there be any such thing?
Gist of Idea
Virtues can have aims, but good states of affairs are not among them
Source
Philippa Foot (Morality, Action, and Outcome [1985], p.101)
Book Reference
Foot,Philippa: 'Moral Dilemmas' [OUP 2002], p.101
A Reaction
Isn't successful human functioning, such as heath, always to be desired? If honour is a worthy aim, doesn't that make being rightly honoured a desirable state of affairs? She is attacking consequentialism, but I'm not convinced here.