The phrase "about virtues" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing topics related to moral qualities or principles that are considered good or desirable in a person.
Example: "The book is primarily about virtues and how they shape our character and actions."
Alternatives: "concerning virtues" or "regarding virtues".
Solomon does not particularly like MacIntyre's use of traditions, in the sense that it still leaves open the nostalgia for religion and a sense of community, but goes on to admit that Aristotle did invoke a sense of community when speaking about virtues.
Utilitarianism irritates people because it reduces moral deliberation to calculation, because it doesn't license high-minded high-falutin' rhetoric about virtues, values or respect for persons, and because it doesn't provide quick, easy answers to questions about the legitimacy of torture or other vexed moral issues.
These dialogues raise two general questions about virtues that are important to ethical theory, one concerning instrumentality and another concerning unity.
A direct consequentialist about virtues holds that the moral qualities of a character trait (such as whether or not it is a moral virtue) depend on the consequences of that trait (Driver 2001a, Hurka 2001, Jamieson 2005, Bradley 2005).
Socrates nevertheless has strong opinions about virtues, opinions that guide his search for definitions for example, that courage is noble (Laches 193d) and that we should pursue virtue above all else.
In other words, intellectual apprehension of harmony brings about virtue.
Rockwell's paintings, notwithstanding their astounding microscopic verisimilitude, were never about formal virtues above all else.
Cafe Paradiso is not about virtue but about taste.
It's all about virtue and vice, with just the assumption that virtue will be rewarded.
He has written many times about virtue and how it can be eroded.
