Virtue ethics is a philosophical approach that treats dispositional virtue and character as the primary subjects of ethics, in contrast to other ethical systems that put consequences of voluntary acts
Aristotle
Faith, Hope and Love, as portrayed by Mary Lizzie Macomber (1861–1916)
Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings span the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatet
Virtue ethics
…other good that is defined independently of the virtues, thereby subsuming virtue ethics under (or somehow merging it with) consequentialist ethics. To Aristotle, a virtue was not a skill that made you better able to achieve eudaimonia but was itself an expression of eudaimonia. In ancient Greek and modern…
School of Aristotle in Mieza, Macedonia, Greece
"Aristotle tutoring Alexander" (1895) by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
Portrait bust of Aristotle; an Imperial Roman (1st or 2nd century AD) copy of a lost bronze sculpture made by Lysippos