Abstract: As one of the main contemporary normative ethics,virtue ethics pay the same attention to right action as rule ethics and provide its corresponding action theories and arguments.According to Rosalind Hursthouse,one of the representative scholars of Neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics,right actions are what virtuous agents will do characteristically in moral situations; and virtuous agents are those who are of inner characters necessary to the realization of well-beings or flourishing.The guide of right actions provided by virtue ethics is based on those inner characters of virtuous agents and embodied as some sort of “v-rules”,which refuses the codified decision procedure.With moral dilemmas,virtue ethics make the distinctions between action guidance and action assessment,and between resolvable dilemmas and irresolvable dilemmas.Therefore,virtue ethics reveal four types of moral dilemmas which virtuous agents might face with and tell us their different action and psychological status in actual moral situations.

Key words: Hursthouse, virtue ethics, right behavior, moral dilemma