Virtue ethics

Traditions that begin from character, practical wisdom, and a life that goes well, rather than from outcomes alone or from rules alone.

Aristotle’s ethics is the usual Western starting point. Confucian cultivation is a different and major tradition in the same neighborhood. Neither is the midpoint of NOEMA’s moral axis. If your moral answers are mixed, that may be caution, case sensitivity, or a virtue-ethical view. The score cannot tell those apart.

Six axes

• Morality
• Meaning

Philosophers

• Aristotle
• Confucius
• Mencius

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Virtue Ethics”