PHL 333 Lecture 3: PHL 333 week 3
8 Apr 2016
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Virtue has two parts to it one pertaining to thinking (intellectual) and the other character (moral) Thinking is learned through teaching needs experience and time to grow. Character comes from habits and constant practice therefore our character is not present in us by nature. Things given to us by nature cannot be habituated in another way. Eg. a rock by nature always falls downward, so it will never be able to fall upward. Virtues don"t come to us by nature, but by habit and we must take them on. Things that belong to us by nature include our senses. People learn by doing, so they are able to do their arts by doing and practicing. Lawmakers make people good by habituating them and those who are not good are failures. People are bound to fail, not everyone will succeed at everything they do. Some people will be courageous and other will become cowards. Habits come more regularly than other actions.
