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Is Aristotle's Ethics Virtue Ethics——On the Structure of Theories of Contemporary Ethics

Zhao Yong

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Virtue ethics is a contemporary concept of ethics and it has a structure of modern ethics.According to strong modern assumption,Aristotle's ethics is not a virtue ethics,but according to a weak one it may be.It is not plausible to examine ancient ethics with structure of modern ethics.The structure of modern ethics leads to the opposition between contemporary theories of ethics.The contemporary theories of ethics should be adding up and inosculated with each other and account for moral life together.

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Virtue ethics is a contemporary concept of ethics and it has a structure of modern ethics.According to strong modern assumption,Aristotle's ethics is not a virtue ethics,but according to a weak one it may be.It is not plausible to examine ancient ethics with structure of modern ethics.The structure of modern ethics leads to the opposition between contemporary theories of ethics.The contemporary theories of ethics should be adding up and inosculated with each other and account for moral life together.

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Virtue ethics is a contemporary concept of ethics and it has a structure of modern ethics.According to strong modern assumption,Aristotle's ethics is not a virtue ethics,but according to a weak one it may be.It is not plausible to examine ancient ethics with structure of modern ethics.The structure of modern ethics leads to the opposition between contemporary theories of ethics.The contemporary theories of ethics should be adding up and inosculated with each other and account for moral life together.

Key concepts: Normative ethics, Meta-ethics, Virtue ethics, Applied ethics, Ethics of technology, Information ethics, Virtue, Nursing ethics

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