Rosalind Hursthouse

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.

Argues that virtue ethics is not incomplete or action-guidance-deficient as critics charge — virtue ethics gives action-guidance ('do what the virtuous person would do') and handles moral dilemmas through the concept of tragic remainders — making virtue ethics a fully competitive alternative to consequentialism and deontology.