All other ethical systems are about being a morally good person and upholding certain moral laws and that's it, but virtue ethics covers being a morally good person and achieving what they believe is the purpose of human life. In virtue ethics they even go so far as to tell us what we must do to achieve this good life or find our eudaimonia, Aristotle stated “to achieve eudaimonia, human beings must fulfill the function that is natural and distinctive for them; live fully according to reason" (136). No other ethical system offers us the reason and essentially a roadmap to achieve this happiness. Virtue ethics instead of looking at universal problems allows a person to first look at themselves, then to look at what is needed to be truly happy. If everyone could achieve this happiness and find and fulfill “the function that is natural and distinctive for them,” then those universal problems would not exist. People will understand what
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