ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how two major premises of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) methodology parallel those of the philosophical school of virtue ethics and how, therefore, GVV can serve as a programmatic and practical means to implement the process of moral growth that virtue ethics describes. While there are many intersections between GVV and descriptions of how to inculcate moral growth in the virtue ethics literature, two premises that this chapter will discuss are as follows: First, moral action should not be understood as an automatic consequence of moral deliberation. After introducing how virtue ethics conceives of moral development, the chapter will examine two premises that virtue ethics and GVV share. Building on this description, the chapter will also explain how GVV instruction provides ways for students to practice these skills of ethical deliberation and moral action in a community or organizational setting.
