Full Idea
One criticism of virtue ethics is that it lamentably fails to come up with a priority ranking of the virtues.
Gist of Idea
Virtue ethics is open to the objection that it fails to show priority among the virtues
Source
Rosalind Hursthouse (On Virtue Ethics [1999], Ch.2)
Book Reference
Hursthouse,Rosalind: 'On Virtue Ethics' [OUP 2001], p.56
A Reaction
However, one might refer to man's essential function, or characteristic function, and one might derive the virtues of a good citizen from the nature of a good society.