Evaluation of Marta Nussbaum's view on the non-relativity of virtues in the Aristotelian approach

The role and method of acquiring virtues has an important place in Aristotle's thought. He tries to achieve the human goal of acquiring virtues in a structured way. Contemporary Aristotelian Marta Nussbaum believes that some contemporary philosophers, although they consider themselves Aristotelians, have significant differences with him in a central point. Their mistake is having a relativistic approach to Aristotelian virtues. This approach is obviously incompatible with other views of Aristotle. Aristotle was a defender of an objective and unique description of human good or human happiness. Aristotle's virtue ethics has the ability to satisfy much of what relativists are looking for while also claiming objectivity, in that being relativistic based on a specific context does not mean relativism, as in other sciences. Like medicine and navigation, attention is paid to a specific field, and this does not mean relativism. According to Nussbaum, Aristotelian virtues can explain virtues better than virtues in the view of relativists, of course, when they carefully examine the background characteristics and pay attention to common and non-common characteristics in order to make the best choice. In this article, after expressing Nussbaum's view on Aristotelian virtues, we will examine three forms of his idea and finally we will clarify how virtues are non-relative in Aristotle's thought.