ABSTRACT
Aristotelian virtue theory focuses on two key questions. The first is: ‘What kind of life should one live?’, or in Aristotle’s terms ‘What is the eudaimon life, the happy life?’ The second is, ‘Does virtue pay?’, or in Aristotle’s terms ‘What, if anything, is the connection between a life of virtue and eudaimonia, or happiness?’ In taking up these questions as central to any ethical theory, Aristotle was following his predecessors, Socrates and Plato, but they remain crucial questions today.13
