Scott P A
Nurs Ethics. 1995 Dec;2(4):279-85. doi: 10.1177/096973309500200402.
Even a brief consideration of the nature of nursing will indicate that an ethical dimension underlies much, if not all, of nursing practice. It is therefore important that students and practitioners are facilitated in developing an ethical awareness and sensitivity from early in their professional development. This paper argues that Aristotelian virtue theory provides a practice-based focus for health care ethics for a number of reasons. Also, because of his emphasis on the character of the moral agent, and on the importance of perception and emotion in moral decision-making, Aristotelian virtue theory provides a useful supplement to the traditional duty-based approaches to health care ethics analysis, which are increasingly being identified in the literature as having limits to their application within the health care context.
即使对护理的本质进行短暂思考也会发现，伦理维度构成了大部分（即便不是全部）护理实践的基础。因此，促进学生和从业者在职业发展早期就培养伦理意识和敏感度非常重要。本文认为，亚里士多德的德性理论为医疗保健伦理提供了基于实践的关注点，原因有多个。此外，由于亚里士多德强调道德行为者的品格以及感知和情感在道德决策中的重要性，他的德性理论为传统的基于义务的医疗保健伦理分析方法提供了有益补充，而在文献中越来越多地指出，这些传统方法在医疗保健背景下的应用存在局限性。
