PHILOS 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Croesus, Habituation
28 Jan 2017
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Virtue is a type of health condition for the soul. People are praised for their virtue: praiseworthy is to be praised for its character and its state in relation to something. Virtue is a state of the soul: the soul is how the body works (activities, attention); the software that runs all the activities, therefore, we have to consider the structure of the soul. It divides into: non-rational, not responsive to reason, they do not arise b/c of reason, and reason can do nothing about it, ex. How do virtues arise in us: ask this question to make people virtuous, they rise neither by nature or against nature. (pg. 18: virtue is not against our nature, if virtue is against our nature, no one could ever become virtuous, ex. Throwing a rock in the air will not force it to stay up.
