What is a moral virtue

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  Moral virtues are virtues of the nonrational part of the soul. Moral Virtue. Moral virtues represent habits, traits, or dispositions of character (in contrast to intellectual virtues, which represent capacities of reason). Moral virtues are acquired by practice—i.e., by performing virtuous acts over and over until they become habitual behavior.

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• [DOC File]Aristotle Multiple Choice

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  42. According to Plato the ultimate knowledge upon which moral virtue is based is. a. Piety. b. Virtue. c. the Good. d. Justice. e. all of the above. 43. According to Plato the ultimate and supreme Good . a. is too simple an idea to be grasped fully by the human mind. b. is …

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• [DOC File]06-347

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  A similar point can be made in connection with virtue ethics. As noted earlier, Julia Driver identifies reliability as the exclusive virtue-making property of a moral virtue, while Michael Slote analyzes this notion strictly in terms of certain admirable and intrinsically valuable motives.

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• Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

  Moral Virtue and Practical Wisdom: Theme Comprehension in Children, Youth and Adults. The relation of moral virtue to phronesis, or practical wisdom applied to achieving one’s goals, has been a source of conjecture and reflection among moral philosophers since antiquity (Aristotle, trans. 1925/1988).

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• [DOC File]Plato Multiple Choice

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  These three philosophers offer significantly different approaches to ethics, but they all concern themselves with the main distinctions of ethics. Aristotle locates the ethical in the rational nature of human beings, arguing that the moral goodness is the end of the rational activity of the soul in accordance with moral virtue.

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• [DOC File]Virtue Ethics

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  Moral Virtue. Virtues are often classified as ‘self-regarding’ and “other-regarding” depending on whether the primary benefit of exhibiting these virtues accrues to the virtuous agent, or some other. So, the virtue of ‘industry’ is sometimes said to be self-regarding because …

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• [DOC File]Chapter 1: Introduction

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  A moral virtue is a disposition to choose the mean between to vices (extremes) of a feeling appropriate to the situation (definition at II.6) II.7-9 Characteristics of Extremes and Means. Some things are bad in themselves and have no mean. The appearance of vice is relative to the observer's perspective.

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• [DOC File]RELIABILITY, RATIONALITY, AND VIRTUE

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  d. moral virtue is within the reach of ordinary people. e. two of the above. 18. According to Aristotle . a. only practical investigations have a teleological basis. b. only theoretical investigations have a teleological basis. c. both practical and theoretical investigations have a teleological basis.

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