PHI 1104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nicomachean Ethics, Intellectual Virtue, Habituation
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19 Feb 2016
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How do we acquire moral virtue (sometimes translated as the virtues of character): by nature, a stone moves downwards. Habituation could not make it move upwards, even. If something is by nature in one condition, habituation cannot bring it into another. Not by seeing frequently or hearing frequently do we acquire the sense of seeing or hearing; on the contrary, because we have the senses we make use of them; we do not get. Our various natural powers: seeing and hearing, for example if you were threw it up ten thousand times to habituate it. Moral virtue: does not arise in us naturally. condition. We do not have to practice to acquire these. For it is by doing what we ought to do when we study the arts that we learn the arts them by making use of them. (p. 596) The virtues, like the arts: we acquire by practicing themselves (p. 596)