id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9609 Virtue ethics - Wikipedia .html text/html 7582 1166 53 In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle, like Plato before him, argued that the pursuit of eudaimonia is an "activity of the soul in accordance with perfect virtue",[9] which further could only properly be exercised in the characteristic human community—the polis or city-state. The virtues also figure prominently in Aristotle's moral theory found in Nicomachean Ethics. One criticism that is frequently made focuses on the problem of guidance; opponents, such as Robert Louden in his article "Some Vices of Virtue Ethics", question whether the idea of a virtuous moral actor, believer, or judge can provide the guidance necessary for action, belief formation, or the decision of legal disputes. Kant rarely mentioned Aristotle by name but did not exclude his moral philosophy of virtue ethics from his critique. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9609.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9609.txt