![]() ![]() Foremost among the moral virtues stand four key virtues, the cardinal virtues, the cornerstone of Aristotle’s moral framework: prudence, justice, temperance, and courage. Though Aristotle lists many different virtues in his Nicomachean Ethics, some receive special attention. His ethical theories entered the stream of Western thought especially through scholastics like Thomas Aquinas, and still influence some moral and political philosophers today, such as Alasdair MacIntyre. One of the most famous proponents of virtue ethics in the history of philosophy was the famous Greek philosopher Aristotle, teacher of Alexander the Great. ![]() Virtue ethics, though it leaves a place for rules, laws, consequences, and outcomes, focuses mainly on the inner qualities of the individual. Answers like these implicitly buy into a specific moral philosophy: virtue ethics. ![]() But most likely the answers will remain roughly the same: a good person is kind, brave, honest, wise, responsible. What does it mean to be a good person? Answers to this question will vary from place to place, time to time, and culture to culture. ![]()
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