What kind of person should I be? In dealing with the question with virtue ethics, moral dilemmas such as this question will be investigated in order to compare differences and advantages as well as problems. Ethically speaking is doing what is right and if a person in question has good character and motivation she is behaving ethically.

Virtue ethics is a very different approach to the other work by Aristotle. It does not primarily concentrate on the right action as such; the right action according to virtue ethicists is the one that the virtuous person would do. Virtue ethics takes the central feature of morality to be the virtuous character, and the account of what the virtues are as the basis of the theory.

The virtuous person is not someone who focuses on their own happiness or pleasure, or someone who follows the same rules and orders as...