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  • Essay / What is virtue ethics? - 1379

    All other systems of ethics cover being a morally good person and following certain moral laws and that's it, but virtue ethics covers being a morally good person and to achieve what he or she believes to be the goal of human life. . In virtue ethics they even go so far as to tell us what we must do to achieve this good life or find our eudaimonia, Aristotle said: "to achieve eudaimonia, human beings must fulfill the function which is natural and distinctive to them; live fully according to reason” (136). No other system of ethics offers us a reason or a road map for achieving this happiness. Virtue ethics, instead of looking at universal issues, allows a person to first examine themselves, and then look at what is necessary to be truly happy. If everyone could achieve this happiness and find and fulfill "the function which is natural and distinctive to them", then these universal problems would not exist. People will understand that what