Becoming Virtuous with Nancy Snow
The Moral Science Podcast
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How Folk Virtue Develops Into Aristotelian Virtue
Aristotle's account of virtue is driven by goal dependent automaticity. But in Aristotelian virtue, there are certain forms of self-knowledge and self-appraisal that can be very helpful in developing virtue. In a very early stages of virtue development, a person comes to appreciate virtue only as instrumentally valuable to the achievement of a desired goal. So, our young parent might value patience, for example, only because patience helps get his kid to eat vegetables,.
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