Virtue Ethics and Maori Ethics

There has been considerable recent interest among moral philosophers in the significance of the virtues for ethics and in the possibility of establishing virtue ethics as a normative theory distinct from deontological and consequentialist theories.' The main thesis of this essay is that traditional New Zealand Maori ethics is a virtue ethics. Our argument for this thesis is composed of three distinct, though frequently intertwined, strands. Descriptively we argue that a virtue ethics model is a fruitful one for understanding the nature of Maori ethics. Comparatively we argue that Maori ethics displays important similarities (and dissimilarities) when compared with other examples of virtue ethics, such as the Aristotelian tradition. Metaethically we argue that qua instance of a virtue ethic, Maori ethics implies certain conceptions of the self as moral agent, of the nature and forms of moral education, and of the appropriate patterns of sociopolitical organization

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