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Paper On Virtue Ethics

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Paul Conway March 11, 2018 Professor VandenHombergh Philosophy 1301 Virtue Ethics Virtue Ethics is one of the three main theories in normative ethics. Virtue Ethics is meant to focus on the moral character of someone or emphasize on their virtues. If someone who possess the virtue of being honest, they do not lie correct? An honest person who identifies as being honest and actively practices honesty, is only an honest person if they act without outer stimuli telling the person to be honest. An honest person would not lie because it might have consequences or they might let someone down, an honest person would not lie simply for the fact of it “being a lie” and because lying is “wrong.” Even with the focus being on virtues, doesn’t mean
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