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Virtue Ethics

Virtue ethics or virtue-based ethics is considered to be a normative theory which is perceived to be of vital necessity in the revival of moral values in this declining age of modernism and the emergence of post-modernism, with the failure of its moral theories to propose a new model for the salvation of human beings. In an age of moral estrangement and chilling moral conscience which is, in fact, the consequence of mutilating the truth of humanity, the necessity of moral virtues and the significance of human fulfillment reaches its climax. Casting a glance at virtue ethics, the present article seeks to explore the nature of virtue ethics, its geographical position and its course of development throughout the history. Differing statements regarding virtue ethics, though they have some points in common, develop various views that are of significance in understanding and explaining virtue ethics and its practical consequences.