However, as advocates of virtue ethics interpretations acknowledge, there are also substantial differences between Mencius and any Western virtue ethics.
In general, Chinese and Western virtue ethics converge in focusing on certain virtues as crucial for ethical development of the person.
For example, Western virtue ethicists such as Aristotle place great value on purely theoretical contemplation, which Confucians typically regard as lacking intrinsic value.
Virtue ethics also tend to embody the theme that the ethical life of right (and in the case of Chinese and contemporary Western virtue ethics) caring relationship to others is necessary for human flourishing.
"He's a wise sage trying to preserve Jewish values -- honesty, devotion, compassion -- while surrounded by immoral outlaws," observes the comic Jackie Mason, an expert on Jewish Westerns by virtue of numerous appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show," a CBS neighbor of "Gunsmoke".
It has one foot in the western camp by virtue of Nato membership, but economically there is a growing sense of separation.
In the context of our discussion of morality, we asked ourselves what are the basic tenets of the fundamental moral theories, which compose the Western tradition: Aristotelian virtue ethics, Kantian deontology and Millian consequentialism.
The Franco-Prussian War still echoes down the halls of Western art by virtue of the indelible effect it had on Monet, Renoir, Courbet and Pissarro, to just name a few.
Moral and Intellectual Virtues in Western and Chinese Philosophy.
