Ethically Yours

More quotes… "Since virtue is concerned with passions and actions, and on voluntary passions and actions praise and blame are bestowed, on those that are involuntary pardon, and sometimes also pity, to distinguish the voluntary and the involuntary is presumable necessary for those who are studying the nature of virtue, and useful also for legislators [...]

Quotes for my students studying virtue ethics.  Melden, A. I. (1967). Ethical theories; a book of readings (2d ed.). Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,: Prentice-Hall. Excerpts from Aristotle’s The Nichomachean Ethics "Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly [...]