Moderna virta etiko estis popularigita dum la fino de la 20a jarcento en granda parto kiel respondo al la verko de [[G.E.M. Anscombe]]'s nome "[[Modern Moral Philosophy]]". Anscombe arguesargumentas thatke [[consequentialist]]konsekvencismo andkaj [[deontologicaldeontologio|deontologia]] ethicsetiko areestas onlyfareblaj feasiblekiel asuniversalaj universalteorioj theoriesse ifambaŭ theskoloj twobaziĝas schoolssur groundla themselvesdia in [[divine law]]leĝo. AsKiel akonvinkita deeplykristano, devotedAnscombe Christian herselfproponis, Anscombe proposedke that either those who do not give ethical credence to notions of divine law take up virtue ethics, which does not necessitate universal laws as agents themselves are investigated for virtue or vice and held up to "universal standards", or that those who wish to be utilitarian or consequentialist ground their theories in religious conviction.<ref name="Vries">{{cite book|author1=Professor Michiel S.S. De De Vries|author2=Professor Pan Suk Kim|title=Value and Virtue in Public Administration: A Comparative Perspective|year=2011|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0-230-35709-9|page=42}}</ref> [[Alasdair MacIntyre]], who wrote the book ''[[After Virtue]]'', was a key contributor and proponent of modern virtue ethics, although some claim that MacIntyre supports a relativistic account of virtue based on [[Norm (social)|cultural norms]], not objective standards.<ref name="Vries"/> [[Martha Nussbaum]], a contemporary virtue ethicist, objects to MacIntyre's relativism, among that of others, and responds to relativist objections to form an objective account in her work "Non-Relative Virtues: An Aristotelian Approach".<ref>{{cite book |last=Nussbaum|first=Martha|title=Non-Relative Virtues: An Aristotelian Approach|year=1987}}</ref> However, Nussbaum's accusation of relativism appears to be a misreading. In ''Whose Justice, Whose Rationality?'', MacIntyre's ambition of taking a rational path beyond relativism was quite clear when he stated "rival claims made by different traditions […] are to be evaluated […] without relativism" (p. 354) because indeed "rational debate between and rational choice among rival traditions is possible” (p. 352). ''Complete Conduct Principles for the 21st Century''<ref name="ethics">John Newton, Ph.D., ''Complete Conduct Principles for the 21st Century'' (2000). {{ISBN|0-9673705-7-4}}.</ref> blended the Eastern virtue ethics and the Western virtue ethics, with some modifications to suit the 21st Century, and formed a part of contemporary virtue ethics.<ref name="ethics" />
One major trend in contemporary virtue ethics is the [[Modern Stoicism]] movement.
