3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
British philosopher at Oxford — who created the Trolley Problem as a philosophical thought experiment — revived virtue ethics against utilitarianism and Kantian deontology — and created the theory of natural goodness in Natural Goodness.
American philosopher who specializes in Plato and ancient philosophy — particularly Plato's ethics and psychology — and whose work on the relationship between character and virtue in Plato has contributed to the virtue ethics revival.
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.