How Do We Get It Wrong? Let Us Count The Ways

One of the important aspects of a genuine Virtue Ethics approach that does not get as much discussion or examination — and often isn't taught in Ethics courses — is determining what ways, to what degrees, and for what reasons one has gone wrong, done wrong, morally failed.  All too often, we confine ourselves to thinking in terms of the virtues and the vices — which, to be sure, is good, a better approach, one more adequate to the complexities of human beings and moral life than those...