| Summary: | In this article, we would like to argue that the notion of faith, as seen in the anthropology that Kierkegaard presents in works such as <i>The Sickness unto Death</i> or <i>Postscript</i>, among others, shows striking similarities with the Aristotelian ethics of virtue. In a more specific manner, we wish to propose that faith can be interpreted as a virtue in the Aristotelian sense since one can find the following three aspects in it: (1) faith is a state based on habit; (2) faith makes human beings good; and (3) faith makes the human being perform her characteristic activity well. In our view, these features correspond to Aristotle’s definition of virtue: “If this is so in all cases, the virtue of a human being too will be the state that makes a human being good and makes him perform his characteristic activity well”. (<i>Nicomachean Ethics</i>, 1106a).
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