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Can Virtue Be Taught?
The Art of Manliness
Modern Cognitive Science and Modern Psychology Can Help You Be Better People
The lessons from the Greco-Roman moral philosophers that virtue can be taught. If you try to do it too late in life, it's going to be probably too late. Modern cognitive science also tells us that some of the things that the ancient record humans thought did not work, do not in fact work. Becoming old is necessary but not sufficient condition as philosophers would put it for becoming wise. Just because time passes, that doesn't mean you're learning anything from your experiences. You have to learn actively. And then pay attention to your experiences and then are learning. It's hard to imagine a 15 year old who is ahead of his own age or her own mature years. But
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