... life" and what conditions and characteristics make up this "good life". Virtue ethics prescribes that we imagine a picture of the good life and of the good person and act in accordance to those ideals. In virtue ethics the standard of right action is as follows: "An act is morally right just because it is one that a virtuous person, acting in character, would do in that situation" (Shafer ... , and that this good is only achievable through activity of the soul exhibiting excellence; that is being virtuous. And at the heart of Nicomachean Ethics and virtue ethics is the search for "eudaim...

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