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Virtue Ethics and The Quest for Character

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Virtue Ethics - The Three Major Schools of Moral Philosophy

The three major schools of moral philosophy are duty-based ethics, utilitarianism and Kantian style deontology. In many ways this is a book sort of from the position within moral philosophy called virtue ethics. The basic idea being that if we all started working on ourselves on our own character then society will be a better place. But laws and structures in society aren't gonna do it if we're not individually virtuous according to John Sutter.

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