van Zyl, Liezl2020-01-152019-04-242020-01-152019van Zyl, L. (2019). Does virtue ethics allow us to make better judgments of the actions of others? In Virtue Ethics: Retrospect and Prospect (pp. 99–110). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15860-6_89783030158590https://hdl.handle.net/10289/13374Virtue ethics encourages us to judge the actions of others, not merely as right or wrong, but as virtuous (kind, courageous, just, compassionate, etc.) or vicious (cruel, cowardly, unjust, selfish, etc.). In doing so, however, we risk acting viciously ourselves. That is, our judgments of others can be unfair, unkind, insensitive, uncharitable, or hypocritical, even while being accurate. I argue that in order to make good judgments of the actions of others we should turn to virtue ethics for action guidance. That is, our primary aim should not be to make accurate judgments but to act virtuously when judging others.application/pdfenThis is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedited version of an article published in Virtue Ethics: Retrospect and Prospect. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15860-6_8Virtue ethicsRight actionOther-directed moral judgmentViceGood (Virtuous) judgmentChapter in Book10.1007/978-3-030-15860-6_8