PHL-2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Intellectual Virtue
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To be a good person is to have a good set of dispositions. Virtues and vices-(not things we want to acquire) A good chef will occasionally make a bad meal doesn"t mean not good. A coward runs away from things they don"t need to. A fool faces things they don"t need to. Continent- behave the same way virtuous person does but it is a struggle because it is not natural (this is how i"m supposed to behave) Incontinent- lots of addicts i know i shouldn"t but . Akratic- weak willed they know what the virtuous action is and they want to do but they can"t bring themselves to act in that way. Overshooting- an inpatient person should strive to be a doormat so they end up in the middle. The worst leader is a perfectly virtuous person. Virtues of the internet- not as easy to ignore injustice, resource to information, more honest,
