Virtue ethics seems less easily applicable to the domain of “what governmental policies to support” than to the domain of personal behavior, so I had a hard time thinking of examples. Can you?
On politics, virtue ethics might say: “try to have leaders that are good”*, “accepting bribes is wrong”, and perhaps “seek peace and shared ground rather than division and fear.” (Working towards peace seems more virtuous than fear mongering.)
*and if they’re not good, try and change that—gradual progress is better than no progress at all.
It seems to me that your examples of B are mostly deontological, so it would be nice to have some C which represented virtue ethics as well.
Virtue ethics seems less easily applicable to the domain of “what governmental policies to support” than to the domain of personal behavior, so I had a hard time thinking of examples. Can you?
On politics, virtue ethics might say: “try to have leaders that are good”*, “accepting bribes is wrong”, and perhaps “seek peace and shared ground rather than division and fear.” (Working towards peace seems more virtuous than fear mongering.)
*and if they’re not good, try and change that—gradual progress is better than no progress at all.