If moral virtue is habituation, doesn’t that still mean it’s learned?<\/p>\n
Aristotle sought to succeed Plato as the head of the Academy. Doesn’t get it. Travels to Asia Minor and becomes the tutor of Alexander (the Great). Aristotle: The world around us can have things that are innately good (the innate good of a knife is cutting well) Golden mean for everything around us? What if the world in itself is skewed? What if the people around one are skewed? Certainly not a universal approach to living a good life. Stemming from his own bubble of philosophers<\/p>\n Substitution of activity does not work for a good life. Actual action is needed. < pretty self explanatory<\/p>\n Self-deceptive activity & concept of multiple selves: choose one end, but actively betray that end at times; if you stick to a virtuous routine, but go on a bender every Friday, does that invalidate the virtue of routine?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If moral virtue is habituation, doesn’t that still mean it’s learned? Aristotle sought to succeed Plato as the head of the Academy. Doesn’t get it. Travels to Asia Minor and becomes the tutor of Alexander (the Great). Starts a rival school, Lyceum Aristotle: The world around us can have things that are innately good (the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[841796],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cuit.columbia.edu\/mw3844\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cuit.columbia.edu\/mw3844\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cuit.columbia.edu\/mw3844\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cuit.columbia.edu\/mw3844\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cuit.columbia.edu\/mw3844\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cuit.columbia.edu\/mw3844\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cuit.columbia.edu\/mw3844\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cuit.columbia.edu\/mw3844\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cuit.columbia.edu\/mw3844\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cuit.columbia.edu\/mw3844\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nStarts a rival school, Lyceum<\/em><\/p>\n
\nEudaimonia<\/p>\n