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1. Whose virtues, which vices?
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This chapter provides an overview of the virtues. The virtues receive significant attention from philosophers such as Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. The consensus across cultures and traditions is that a virtue is an excellent and stable quality of the soul that enables a person to act well regarding some kind of activity. That is, virtues are ‘good habits’. When thinking about the virtues, most people have in mind the moral virtues, but there are also intellectual and productive virtues. There are also characteristics that are marks of moral failure, such as dispositions to dishonesty, injustice, and greed. These dispositions to behave badly are the vices.
Title: 1. Whose virtues, which vices?
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This chapter provides an overview of the virtues.
The virtues receive significant attention from philosophers such as Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas.
The consensus across cultures and traditions is that a virtue is an excellent and stable quality of the soul that enables a person to act well regarding some kind of activity.
That is, virtues are ‘good habits’.
When thinking about the virtues, most people have in mind the moral virtues, but there are also intellectual and productive virtues.
There are also characteristics that are marks of moral failure, such as dispositions to dishonesty, injustice, and greed.
These dispositions to behave badly are the vices.
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