How to Achieve Virtue for Excellence and Freedom of Indifference

Schnaehwin is important because he's articulating a very, very, very influential view. Many so-called virtue ethicists hold that it's about their character, and there are no rules. For Aquinas, you need to be disposed to live according to those precepts. It's in and through your initiation into the practices of a community that you discover how to apply them.