The last decade has witnessed a dramatic revival of philosophical interest in virtues. Ethics of vir-tue was initially introduced to distinguish an ap-proach in normative ethics, which emphasizes the virtues or moral character, in contrast with an approach that emphasizes duties or rules (deontology) or one that emphasizes the conse-quences of actions (utilitarianism). The emphasis started shifting from ‘norms ’ to ‘character traits’ of moral agents. Virtue ethicists started asking ‘How should we be? ’ rather than ‘What should we do? ’ Moralists supporting this contention looked to Aristotle’s Nicomachean ethics for a more promising ethical account of virtue. For Aristotle the fundamental question is not, as fo
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