So, ethical virtues are acquired by our world around us, our habitat. They are not already with us when we are born, but by nature we have the ability to attain them or receive them and to perfect them. Right? To become virtuous we must perform virtuous acts in our early youth and grow through virtue as we age. Virtue must become a habit and for virtue to become a habit, a person must 1.) know what he's doing 2.) intends to do it 3.) acts firmly in it. So virtues are basically just habits and in specific, ethical virtue is concerned with a feeling and an action. That's what I got from it.
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I agree. The problem I had with understanding Aristotle's logic was that he was not able to give an exact way to be virtuous. It was more of an equation that he provided rather than an actual number (if that makes sense).
ReplyDeleteThis break down is a lot easier to understand than Aristotle, haha. I do agree with you though. You learn a virtue and then practice it throughout your life to become virtuous.
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