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Essay Instructions: the question is: Some philosophers have claimed that the virtue ethics is a remedy for the modern ethical theories and their conception of morality. (a)-what are the problems of modern ethical theories? Why the virtue ethics could be considered as such? (b)What are the main features of the theory? (c) The theory itself is not,the general,considered to be a complete theory. Why is that? if it were to be supplementary,with which among the 3 major modern ethical theories (Utilitarianism-Kant ethics- and social contract theory) it would best fit.

Do not plagerize of you get an F. when you excerpt, make it explicit by quotation marks and have your source clearly presented; otherwise, it will be regarded as plagerism.

Essay Instructions: A paper of 5 pages in lenght that presents a detailed exiguous and critical examination of the ethical theory, using philosophical and literary resources.
Assessment of the paper will be based on the comprehension of the theory, text or issue, the depth of the critical engagement and the argumentative structure of the paper.

Please use Pojman's The Moral Life as a source. There is a chapter about Virtue Ethics with fragments from Victor Hugo / The Bishop and the Candlestics, Aristotle / Virtue Ethics, Bernard Mayo / Virtue and the Moral Life, Nathaniel Hawthorne / The Great Stone Face, William Frankena / A Critique of Virtue-Based Ethical System. These are the sources I would prefer to be used as a work cited. However, you can use any sources involving virtue ethics. Please use at least one source that criticises the theory.
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Essay Instructions: Discuss Aristotle's approach to ethics. Sometimes he is said to have initiated "virtue ethics," locating virtue in a person's character rather than in their actions. Therefore, by Aristotle's light, the person is primary. A virtuous act is an act performed by a virtous person. For example, an act of courage could not be identified in the abstract, it would have to be an act in a particular context performed by a couragous person.

Sometimes this approach is criticized as circular. How do you know who is couragous? You find someone who habitually performs couragous acts. How do you know what acts are couragous? They are acts performed by a person with couragous character.

Is this circularity fatal to Aristotle's approach? If so, show why this is so. If not, discuss how the circularity problem might be solved.