Virtue, Vice, and Value

"What are virtue and vice, and how do they relate to other moral properties such as goodness and rightness? Thomas Hurka defends a perfectionist account of virtue and vice that gives distinctive answers to these questions. His account treats the virtues as higher-level intrinsic goods, ones that involve morally appropriate attitudes to other, independent goods and evils. Virtue by itself makes a person's life better, but in a way that depends on the goodness of other things." "This account was accepted by many early 20th-century philosophers, including Brentano, Moore, Rashdall, and Ross.…