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Virtue and Excellence: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics with Colin Redemer

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Is There a Higher Quality to Contemplation?

Aristotle's theory is that when I said virtue, virtue is a habit of choosing the meaning between two vices. If you master all the moral virtues so that they're habitually being practiced, then you're free to just think about reality. And theoretical life, the area just comes from the word to see. So you're learning how to see. That's moral virtue. You've got the moral virtue when you no longer have to make those choices anymore.

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