Exam 7: Virtue Ethics: Be a Good Person

For Aristotle, a person living a life of reason is living a life of

One objection to virtue ethics is that it's possible for a virtuous person to act entirely from virtue and still commit an immoral act.

A ________ is a stable disposition to act and feel according to some ideal or model of excellence.

For virtue ethicists, motivations for moral or immoral action are essential.

A conscientious practitioner of Aristotelian virtue ethics would have to appeal to a moral rule such as "Do not lie" in order to know that she should not lie to a friend in order to avoid paying a debt.

Aristotle says that moral virtue comes about as a result of ________.