Rosalind Hursthouse On Virtue-Based Ethics Summary

Rosalind Hursthouse viewpoints on virtue-based ethics express how virtue ethics can provide guidance on a particular action, deal with moral problems or conflicts, and influence a range of emotions and emotional reactions (Timmons, 2012, p. 243). Hursthouse from a virtue ethics perspective, states that people act in accordance with duty and considers the question which character traits are virtues and explores how answers to this question can be supported by an appeal to the fact of a person’s natural behavior (Timmons, 2012, p. 244-245).
Hursthouse recognizes that the problem with virtue ethics is that it cannot guide a person in their decision-making (often called the ‘conflict problem’) and does not resolve the moral issue. It appears