"The concepts of obligation, and duty-moral obligation and moral duty, that is to say-and of what is morally right and wrong ...ought to be jettisoned ... because they are survivals ... from an earlier conception of ethics which no longer generally survives, and are only harmful without it...It is as if the notion `criminal' were to remain when criminal law and criminal courts had been abolished...It would be a great improvement if, instead of `morally wrong', one always named a genus such as `untruthful', `unchaste', `unjust'." With these words, Elizabeth Anscombe (1958) launched her famous critique of the dominant traditions of modern moral philosophy and suggested that they be replaced with a renewed investigation of human virtue, one that built on the magnificent work of Plato and Aristotle while bringing it into the present. A rich body of scholarship known as "virtue ethics" has developed in response to this call to arms. Rather than conceiving goodness in terms of conformity to moral principles (such as the categorical imperative or the principle of utility) virtue ethics seeks to understand it in terms of the characteristics (`virtues') which promote human flourishing. But how are we to define `flourishing' in a non question-begging way? Writers in this tradition part ways on this crucial question. In this tutorial we will study the best and most influential writings in virtue ethics in the last half century. The objective is not only to get to know this important body of work, but to refine our own conceptions of human nature and moral philosophy in the process. Authors will include Julia Annas, Elizabeth Anscombe, Philipa Foot, Rosalind Hursthouse, John McDowell, Alasdair MacIntyre, John McDowell, Iris Murdoch, Michael Slote and Michael Thompson. Format: tutorial. Students will work in pairs. Requirements: each participant will present a substantial written work every other week and compose and present comments on the partner's paper in alternate weeks. Prerequisites: Philosophy 101 or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limit: 10 (expected: 6-10). Preference will be given to current or prospective majors.