A nurse educator is discussing the topic of virtue ethics. The nurse educator explains that virtue ethics espouses that:
a. people are born virtuous.
b. people's actions are based on moral rules and unchanging principles.
c. virtues such as truthfulness develop over time.
d. whatever a person thinks is right is.
C
Virtue ethics contends that virtues such as truthfulness and trustworthiness develop over time and that
an individual's character must be developed (not inborn) by nature and habit; therefore, the person will
be predisposed to behaving and living virtuously. Action based upon morals and unchanging principles
is a characteristic of deontological thinking, and whatever a person thinks is right is an example of
relativism.
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