THE VIRTUE OF PRINCIPLE ETHICS

I raise four issues that militate against adopting virtue ethics as a guiding concept: (a) In the resolution of most ethics cases, virtue et hics is irrelevant; (b) there is substantial redundancy between virtue and principle ethics; (c) acting and deciding are unavoidable tasks f or which principle ethics is particularly suitable; and (d) the emphas is on character and community wisdom increases the possibility of idio syncratic and unsound decision making.