He made a systematic and penetrative analysis of virtue - its connotation, nature, category, evolution, cultivation and the relationship between ethical virtue and rational virtue etc.

He maintains moral problems after the manner of the"reason of education",the reason involving feelings and actions and he thinks that the virtue of understanding can offer the right principle for our behavior and contemplate on how to act,while ethical virtue is the feeling s mean and the adequacy in behavior which come from the edification of the customs on the other hand.

It is a practical ability of reason in moral action for its guidence to formation of moral virtue.

Virtue ethics and regulation ethics have taken an important role in the life ethics, but the virtue ethics has not been regarded enough, it is important to reconsider the modern value of traditional virtue ethics.

From the good deeds of the heroes who fought against of SARS, we found that there are some agreements hetween virtue ethics and medical ethics.

The Manifesto of New-Confucianism and the Revival of Virtue Ethics;

In the process of constructing his newly founded virtue ethics, Mackintyre criticized the defects of Aristotles s theory of life unity, and realized that the concepts of "practice" and "inner privilege" he advocated could not fully constitute a self-satiafied ethical system.

Michael Slote is contemporary renowned virtue ethics scholar.