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Virtue Ethics: Miller's Next Cab Off The Rank

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Virtue ethics

Virtue ethics is Miller's next cab off the rank. Twentieth-century virtue ethicists tended to focus less on particular norms and actions, and more on the character traits of a good person and a good life. Despite the general dissatisfaction that virtue ethics is supposed to have with clear cut, rule-based approaches, Miller asserts they have at least one moral absolute here - "the virtuous person would have an unwavering desire to promote love in all its forms" - and, yet again, the same-sex marriage rabbit is brought out of the hat.

The deployment of virtue ethics in public policy is often vacuous and circular: you simply assert that "the virtuous person would surely... (fill in the blank with whatever character trait suits
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