Adam Smith’s version of Virtue Ethics can be traced directly back to Plato (Socrates) and Aristotle. Smith basically … have been looked upon kindly by the Scottish Presbyterian Church, of which Smith was a nominal member. Virtue Ethics, as a … system of ethics, is completely independent of the issue of whether or not there is a personal God or of any religion …

Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) provided a general analysis of virtue ethics (prudence, temperance … the economy as a whole.Smith’s version of virtue ethics is heavily connected to the specific virtue ethics of Aristotle …, which, in turn, was a version of Plato’s virtue ethics that Plato had learned from Socrates. All of the different types of …

Keynes carefully and methodically devoted chapter nine of the General Theory to a detailed discussion of Virtue Ethics … Keynes. The four main virtues in the Greek version of virtue ethics, as enunciated by Plato(Socrates) and Aristotle, were … ethics approach contrasts with the economic profession’s explicit reliance on utilitarian ethics only. It is not possible to …

the term self interest to stand for selfishness, avarice, greed, or egoist, hedonistic or utilitarian behavior or ethics … misbelief among economists that Smith was a utilitarian in the WN, as opposed to being a practitioner of Virtue ethics in TTMS …, outcomes, goals, or consequences and nothing else. Virtue ethics considers outcomes also, but is also concerned with the roles …