virtue ethics

English

Noun

virtue ethics (uncountable)

1. One of the three major approaches to normative ethics, emphasizing the role of one's character and the virtues that one's character embodies for determining or evaluating ethical behavior.

Coordinate terms

• consequentialism
• deontology

Translations

approach to ethics

• Finnish: hyve-etiikka
• Hungarian: erényetika
• Swedish: dygdetik c