The universality of virtue ethics—III—Daoism

Lao-Tzu, the founder of Daoism. Image from worldhistory.org, CC license.

Is virtue ethics an approach limited to the Greco-Roman-Christian tradition, or has it been explored also by other philosophies, for instance those that developed around the same time in India and China, and later on in Japan? This is the question we have been exploring in the first two essays of this series, on Buddhism and Confucianism respectively. We conclude with a look at Daoism, on the basis of a provocative paper pub...