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The Philosophy of Self-Improvement

The Art of Manliness

CHAPTER

How to Become a Virtuous Person?

In aristotelian vtue ethics, ye confucius thought the goal like, you wanted to become the kind of person who would do the right thing in the right situation. And so he thought the you did that as you you developed these habits of virtue. So you just kind of practised the skill until you shaped yourself into that person. In the west, aristotle had the same idea that the goal was to become like this virtuous person but you wanted to be naturally a good person. I thought that was interesting that two different cultures came up with the same idea of how to shape a virtuous person.

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