2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Persian physician and philosopher — author of the Canon of Medicine (Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb) and The Book of Healing — who synthesized Aristotelian philosophy with Islamic theology and whose Canon of Medicine was the primary medical textbook in Europe and the Islamic world for 500 years.
British-New Zealand philosopher at Auckland who is one of the leading figures in the virtue ethics revival — whose On Virtue Ethics provides the most careful systematic defense of virtue ethics as a complete moral theory that can address practical ethical questions.