Virtue Ethics and right action

• Main Author: Moula, Payam
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation 2010
• Subjects: Virtue; Right action; phronesis; agent-based; agent-focused; action guidance; moral appraisal; Practical philosophy; Praktisk filosofi
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-54309

This paper evaluates some arguments made against the conceptions of right action within virtue ethics. I argue that the different accounts of right action can meet the objections raised against them. Michael Slote‘s agent-based and Rosalind Hursthouses agent-focused account of right action give different judgments of right action but there seems to be a lack of real disagreement between the two accounts. I also argue that the concept of right action often has two important parts, relating to action guidance and moral appraisal, respectively, and that virtue ethics can deal with both without a concept of right action.