PHILO-120 Lecture 6: Philo 120 (spring) - C6
28 Oct 2020
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If you have one of the practical virtues fully, you have the rest. 2) knowing that the gifts are generous. 3) choose to give because it is generous. 4) need to have stable disposition (giving in firm and unchanging state) 5) need to give with pleasure, or at least without pain. Hence, people need rationality to have full generosity (they need to know . Need prudence to have a stable disposition. Someone who just has a nice disposition to give is either only having good luck or will inevitably make mistakes later; he or she is not necessarily generous. Some natural inclination is needed, but so are prudence and experience. You need more than one area; i. e. to exercise generosity properly you also need to know about justice, a little about other areasetc. Hard to have prudence partially; need prudence about justice in property to be pprudent about addressing human need.
