How to think about virtue and right

摘要: Robert Johnson argues that virtue ethical accounts of right action fail because they cannot take account the fact there are things we ought to do precisely not possess virtuous character traits. Self-improving actions his paradigm case and it would indeed be a problem if ethics could make sense propriety self-improvement. To solve this serious problem, I propose define in terms agent's reasons for instead defining agent performs. argue revised definition makes rightness self-improving can given genuinely interpretation.