In other words, from the perspective of virtue ethics, should you abandon your partner in favor of your career, or should you stay and care for your partner? Why?

Consider the following thought experiment:

You have been happily married now for roughly three years. While no relationship is perfect, you and your partner are both committed to each other. Recently, you were offered a job in New York, running a non-profit organization that helps poor, undereducated children. You are passionate about this job; it is the culmination of your professional ambitions. A week before the move, your partner collapses and is rushed to the emergency room. The results are not good. They are diagnosed with a rare disease that will leave them helpless and bedridden for the remainder of their life. They will require constant care. You cannot afford to hire someone to do this for you; you must be the one to care for your partner. However, remaining to care for your partner means giving up on your dreams to help undereducated children.

Now, respond to the following prompts:

In between 1 3 paragraphs, give me a general description of Virtue Ethics. Your description should include:
An explanation of the nature and goal of cultivating virtue.
A discussion of the virtuous notion of the good life.
A brief description of how virtue ethics works in practice.
Make sure you cite any quotations or paraphrases in the MLA Format. Im expecting you to quote or paraphrase at least a couple times in these paragraphs.

Now that youve done that, give me 1 paragraph where you apply virtue ethics to the above thought experiment.
In other words, from the perspective of virtue ethics, should you abandon your partner in favor of your career, or should you stay and care for your partner? Why?

Lastly, consider some of the criticisms of the theory that you have encountered in our classeither from my lectures or from the class readings.
Pick one of these criticisms.
In at least one paragraph, explain this criticism. How and why is the criticism you have chosen a problem for virtue ethics?
Make sure to cite any quotations or paraphrases in the MLA format. Im expecting you to quote or paraphrase at least a couple of times here.

You can use this reading to quote from.

http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.1.i.html

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