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The present book concentrates on two ethical themes, Normative and Virtue ethics, containing 23 papers in all.These themes undertake more practical tasks, to arrive at standard, that regulate right and wrong conduct, which may involve articulating good habits, that we should acquire, the duties we should follow, or consequences of our behaviour on others. It is direct search for “an ideal litmus tests proper of human behaviour”. It establishes a single principle on the basis of which, we judge all actions; on universal principle that —“we should do to others, what we would want others to do to us”.Virtue ethics, however, places less emphasis on learning rules and instead, stresses the importance of good habits of character, like—benevolence and a host of other virtues. Virtue theory is the oldest normative tradition in western philosophy, starting with Plato's Four Cardinal Virtues. It emphasizes on moral education which can provide solid ground for building a strong virtuous life. Ethics is a 'Normative Science' as against the positive sciences which are descriptive. There is no water tight compartmentalization between Normative and Virtue ethics, or even metaethics; they are continuous and consistent fields.Attempts are made during present day for replacement of normative theory that was traditionally the core of ethics but without the element of “norm', to speak of values /virtues would be absurd, even impossible.