About the lecture

In this module, we provide a broad introduction to what virtue ethics actually is, focusing in particular on how it differs from the other major normative ethical theories – utilitarianism and Kantianism – before moving on to consider the concept of good and bad character traits.

About the lecturer

Iain Law is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham. His main interests are in meta-ethics, applied ethics and ethical theory, and he is currently working on papers in moral theory, moral psychology, the philosophy of medicine and applied ethics.