Editing Normative ethics (section)

=== Virtue ethics ===
{{Main|Virtue ethics}}
Virtue ethics, advocated by [[Aristotle]] with some aspects being supported by [[Thomas Aquinas|Saint Thomas Aquinas]], focuses on the inherent character of a person rather than on specific actions.<ref>D. O. Thomas, ''Obedience to Conscience'', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, New Series, Vol. 64 (1963 - 1964), pp. 243-258.</ref> There has been a significant revival of virtue ethics since the 1950s,<ref name=":0">{{Citation |last1=Hursthouse |first1=Rosalind |title=Virtue Ethics |date=2023 |encyclopedia=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2023/entries/ethics-virtue/ |access-date=2024-03-12 |edition=Fall 2023 |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |last2=Pettigrove |first2=Glen |editor2-last=Nodelman |editor2-first=Uri}}</ref> through the work of such philosophers as [[G.&nbsp;E.&nbsp;M. Anscombe]], [[Philippa Foot]], [[Alasdair MacIntyre]], and [[Rosalind Hursthouse]].<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Stohr |first1=Karen |last2=Wellman |first2=Christopher Heath |date=2002 |title=Recent Work on Virtue Ethics |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20010057 |journal=American Philosophical Quarterly |volume=39 |issue=1 |pages=49–72 |jstor=20010057 |issn=0003-0481}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Simpson |first=Peter |date=1992 |title=Contemporary Virtue Ethics and Aristotle |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20129214 |journal=The Review of Metaphysics |volume=45 |issue=3 |pages=503–524 |jstor=20129214 |issn=0034-6632}}</ref>